Executive buys HCI in (pounds) 37.5m cut-price deal; Key role for hospital...

Evening Times;  June 20, 2002 ;     606 words ......and in many cases rejoin - the NHS family." The hospital, worth up to (pounds) 200m, will...transformation from a private to an NHS hospital. The deal comes three months...patients were being treated in NHS hospitals in Glasgow. lThe hospital had...

Wards full of smoke and hospital beauty contests ... welcome to the NHS of...

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  July 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ......undertaken by the NHS - with only a camera...was a need for a hospital medical photographer...it's like to be an NHS patient, having given...children at the Women's Hospital. So what is her overall...working for the NHS she smiles. I certainly...starting work for the NHS; HEALTHY ...

Flagship NHS helpline is [pounds sterling]30m white elephant; Service...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  May 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......sterling]30 million NHS 24 hotline has failed...workload of GPs and hospital staff, sparking a...crisis for Labour. NHS 24 officials have...hot-water bottle'. NHS 24 has also been...experienced nurses, leaving hospitals struggling to plug...anything I called NHS 24. 'The nurse ...

Hospital anger as balloon logo is burst by NHS.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  July 28, 2000 ;     325 words ...Birmingham Children's Hospital has been told to...drive to give the NHS a new corporate...multiple logos for hospital trusts and create an an image of 'one NHS'. But staff at the children's hospital said they were outraged...Colin Hough, the hospital's chief executive...Along with all ...

Union alarm as NHS buys hospital

Evening Times;  August 9, 2001 ;     343 words ......And 162 staff at the hospital transferring to the NHS will retain their superior...60million to buy the Heart Hospital from the NHS in 1991. Hospital chairman Sir Richard Needham...will become a world-class NHS hospital and its staff will become...

HCI hospital could join NHS in bid to cut queue; Health minister confirms...

Evening Times;  April 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......seriously about taking it over as an NHS hospital, but nothing has been confirmed...Scottish Executive should bring this hospital into the NHS at no further cost to the Scottish...patients were being treated in NHS hospitals in Glasgow. Tory Scottish Secretary...

NHS pays pounds 27m for private heart hospital

The Independent - London;  August 8, 2001 ;     158 words ...THE NHS has bought a private heart hospital in the first act of renationalisation...deal marked a return to the NHS for the hospital which had previously been...considered to be a coup for the NHS since building a similar hospital would cost millions of pounds...

[pounds sterling]15million NHS hospital handed to private sector.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 5, 2005 ;     673 words ......able to have treatment at any NHS hospital and any private one that can...wholesale privatisation of an NHS hospital. Critics say it is wrong for...policy? The idea is for private hospitals to add facilities to the NHS in order to reduce waiting...

NHS: CONDITION RED One of the main battle grounds of the coming election...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ......and Emergency at St Peter's Hospital, near Chertsey, in Surrey...reality of life inside an NHS hospital - and test it against the fanfare for the Government's NHS National Plan. We had grasped, in the abstract, that, if a hospital has all its beds full and...so that would make the ...

First woman to give birth at a London NHS hospital tells her story ; As...

Evening Standard - London;  July 4, 2008 ;     427 words ......birth in a London NHS hospital today spoke out about...doctors at St Mary's hospital in Paddington celebrating...the founding of the NHS. Mrs Hanks said...01 at Amman Valley Hospital, Carmarthenshire...the founder of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan. This...

On the critical list; The hospital is modern, efficient, has no waiting...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ......more than 50 years, the NHS has run a partnership system with the hospital, at Midhurst, West Sussex...treated there. Nearby NHS hospitals have increasingly come...Edward. ' This isn't an NHS hospital, we don't run it and we'...

Will Ministers pay too high a price for HCI?; Buying the private hospital...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 19, 2002 ;     612 words ......attached, which means NHS bosses could use the hospital as a Scotland-wide...Devine believes the hospital should be part of the NHS. But he said not a...on existing local NHS plans - in other words the Glasgow hospitals shake-up. And he stonewalled...

NHS BUYS A PRIVATE HOSPITAL; Row over pounds 27m 'rescue deal'.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 9, 2001 ;     323 words ......not going to become a stand-alone NHS hospital. It will continue to see the same...private. So we have a two-tier NHS hospital and a two-tier wage system, which...Hospital will become a world-class NHS hospital and its staff will become NHS employees...

Not on your life! 73,000 NHS staff were asked if they would be happy to be...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 13, 2006 ;     666 words ......of 73,000 people working in NHS hospitals found that only 44 per cent...staff was West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, where only 24 per cent...was the satisfaction levels of hospital patients, not NHS staff. A spokesman said: 'The...

Unions concerned over NHS pounds 27m buy-up of private heart hospital.

The Birmingham Post (England);  August 9, 2001 ;     472 words ......a private heart hospital for pounds 27.5...return it to the NHS. Health Minister...Blears said the Heart Hospital in central London...cardiac centre for the NHS and would 'significantly...that staff at the hospital would continue to...higher than in the NHS. Geoff Martin, ...