US merger off
Healthcare Market News (News) August 1998Humana, Inc. and United HealthCare Corporation have confirmed that they have mutually agreed to terminate the previously announced merger...
£5m development for Three Shires
Healthcare Market News (News) August 1998Three Shires Hospital in Northampton, which opened in 1982, has commenced work on a £5m development which will increase...
Trusts and health authorities
Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 9 July 1998 at column 609) if the requirement for...
Arcadia in hands of receivers
The Arcadia Healthcare plc group of homes has gone into voluntary receivership. The group owned eight homes with 450 beds and had a total...
Ruling prompts call for review of law
The House of Lords has overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that hospitals and nursing homes should not be allowed to detain vulnerable patients...
Free eye tests
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 19 June 1998 at column 338) to estimate the cost of providing free sight tests...
Mental health
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 29 June 1998 at column 40) which of the components of the NHS will make...
‘State-of-the-art’ heart unit to be installed at hospital
Healthcare Market News (News) July 1998A 'state-of-the-art' cardiac unit, including a catheter laboratory, is to be installed at the Yorkshire Clinic in Bingley, West...
Ineffective purchasing creates problems for NHS.
Healthcare Market News (News) July 1998A report published this month by the Office of Health Economics claims that failures in commissioning are central to...
Hospital hitsquad powers outlined
Healthcare Market News (News) July 1998Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson has this month outlined in more detail the government proposals to raise...
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