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Alchemy Partners is investing £30m in the Just Learning nursery school business, in order to expand the chain from 21 to 35 centres by 2003. 17-Dec-2001 Jarvis has been selected as preferred bidder to build a £25m walk-in care centre for Birmingham City Hospital NHS Trust, one of 20 planned throughout the country. 14-Dec-2001 NHP is to acquire the remaining 51% of Highfield, the operator of 103 nursing homes, for a nominal sum. 13-Dec-2001 Swansea NHS Trust has announced plans to spend £2.6m expanding Morriston Hospital's cardiac unit by autumn 2002. 11-Dec-2001 Integrated Dental Holdings is planning to raise £15m in a flotation to fund the expansion of its chain of 128 dental clinics. 11-Dec-2001 Kettering General Hospital is looking to spend up to £24m on a modernisation programme over the next five years, and is currently seeking £8m for the first phase. 10-Dec-2001 Wrexham County Borough Council is to consider plans from the North East Wales NHS Trust for the refurbishment of Penley Hospital, although the cost of the project is not yet known. 10-Dec-2001 Staffordshire County Council has announced plans to renovate and extend 19 nursing homes as part of a £9.4m investment programme, but a further four homes will be closed. 10-Dec-2001 Health Clinic is planning to expand its chain of 17 city centre eye and health clinics with three new outlets over the coming months. 04-Dec-2001 Bupa is planning to transform the Redwood hospital in Redhill into a diagnostic and surgery centre for NHS patients, as part of the government strategy to increase the involvement of the private sector in the NHS. 04-Dec-2001 Lothian University NHS Trust is planning to shed a further 135 jobs at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Sick Children's Hospital and the Western General, in order to reduce a £5.2m deficit. 03-Dec-2001 Edinburgh University has announced plans to build a £50m research institute for medical cell biology next to the new Royal Infirmary at Little France, with completion due in 2004. 03-Dec-2001 Lynn & Wisbech Hospitals Trust has announced plans for the £4.1m expansion of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, in order to provide new equipment and move critical-care beds into one ward. 30-Nov-2001 Insurance Personnel Selection is to handle the recruitment of 25 staff for a new NHS insurance office in Croydon. 30-Nov-2001 Rugby Borough Council is to consider plans from Warwickshire Health Authority to build a £2m three-storey medical centre in the town centre. 28-Nov-2001 The Cardiothoracic Centre in Liverpool is to receive £40m of government funding to transform it into one of Europe's leading heart hospitals, which will lead to the creation of 1,000 jobs. 22-Nov-2001 HBG Construction has won a £6m contract from North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust to provide new facilities at the City General Hospital in Stoke. 21-Nov-2001 Avon Health Authority is to consider plans for the multi-million pound refurbishment of St Martin's Hospital in Bath, which would include raising about £4m from the sale of a third of the site. 16-Nov-2001 Whittington Hospital in north London has selected Jarvis as preferred bidder for a £30m contract to build new acute facilities. 15-Nov-2001 Willmott Dixon has won a £4.4m contract from Pembrokeshire & Derwen NHS Trust to build a new mental health facility in Haverfordwest. 15-Nov-2001 Skanska has been selected as preferred bidder for the £180m redevelopment of the Walsgrave hospital in Coventry and is also closing in on a £177m contract for Southern Derbyshire Hospitals NHS Trust. 15-Nov-2001 North East Lincolnshire NHS Trust has awarded a £8.5m contract to Allenbuild to build a day patient and ante-natal care unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby. 15-Nov-2001 Babergh District Council is to consider plans from West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust to build a £12m hospital in Sudbury by 2004. 09-Nov-2001 MJ Gleeson has won a £21m contract to build a community hospital in Farnham, and is now bidding for the £130m redevelopment project at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 08-Nov-2001 System C Healthcare, the supplier of patient management software, is to double its staff to 60 over the coming months, and is considering plans for a flotation next year. 06-Nov-2001 Oasis Healthcare has paid £1.5m for general dental practices in Garstang, Middlesbrough and Redditch, taking its network to 55 sites. 31-Oct-2001 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is expected to appoint a preferred bidder in November 2002 for a £136m PFI hospital scheme, which will include a new oncology wing at St James's. 31-Oct-2001 Stockport NHS Trust is planning to rebuild Stepping Hill Hospital over the next 10 years, at a cost of £170m. 29-Oct-2001 Leeds University is to spend £50m building two new research colleges, including the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine at St James's Hospital and the Leeds Institute for Genetics, Health & Therapeutics near Leeds General Infirmary. 25-Oct-2001 Charing Cross Hospital in London has shortlisted five companies to build a £9m mental health unit. 24-Oct-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has announced plans to provide £40m of funding for 100 health projects across Wales, including primary care, mental health and acute hospital services. 19-Oct-2001 The Queen Mary hospital in east London is to select a preferred bidder next month for a £33m project to build a new dentistry and medical school. 18-Oct-2001 Balfour Beatty Capital Projects and Charterhouse Project Finance have been selected as preferred bidder to build and maintain a £86m public-private partnership hospital in Blackburn. 17-Oct-2001 HBG has won a £6.3m contract to build an oncology unit at the Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool. 11-Oct-2001 Deltex Medical, the heart monitor manufacturer, is planning to raise £5m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its sales and marketing activities. 09-Oct-2001 Ashley House is planning to raise £5m in a flotation on Aim in order to fund the expansion of its health centre project management business. 08-Oct-2001 Oasis Healthcare has announced the acquisition of dental practices in Birmingham, Bridlington and Fleetwood and a specialist orthodontic practice in Stockport for a total £0.6m. 02-Oct-2001 Bradford Council has approved outline plans for the £116m modernisation of Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital, and Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust is now drawing up more detailed plans. 02-Oct-2001 Neath Port Talbot Council has approved outline plans from Bro Morgannwg Trust to redevelop the site of Groeswen Hospital at Margam and replace it with a new hospital unit and homes. 01-Oct-2001 St James's University Hospital in Leeds has announced plans to build a £163m cancer treatment centre by 2006, with the creation of 1,000 jobs. 27-Sep-2001 Avon Health Authority is considering plans to replace Bristol's three main hospitals and the children's hospital with a new "super hospital", and five options are being presented to health workers and the public. 26-Sep-2001 Oasis Healthcare has bought dental practices in Chesterfield and Hucknall for a total £0.6m, taking its total estate to 50 sites. 20-Sep-2001 Trinity Care is in negotiations to sell its business to Southern Cross Healthcare, the care home operator. 20-Sep-2001 Huntleigh Technology is building a £2.5m factory in the US to manufacture deep-vein thrombosis prevention equipment. 20-Sep-2001 Barnet Primary Care NHS Trust is inviting tenders for the development of a new £16m hospital on the site of the Edgware Community Hospital. 19-Sep-2001 Clugston has won a contract to design, build and operate a £8m hospital in Sedgefield, which will provide accommodation for elderly and mental health patients. 18-Sep-2001 Lombard Medical is planning to acquire LionMedical for up to £2.8m, as part of a strategy to expand its investments in the cardiovascular medical devices sector. 14-Sep-2001 North Tyneside & Northumberland NHS Trust is planning to build a £21m mental hospital in Morpeth, and a preferred bidder is expected to be appointed next June. 12-Sep-2001 Rydon is to build a £5.9m residential nursing care home at Acton in London for the Ealing Family Housing Association. 06-Sep-2001 Durham County Council is planning to close 17 of its 25 residential care homes over the next three years with the loss of 350 jobs, although five new housing schemes will be built for elderly people. 05-Sep-2001 The Bath Clinic is to invest £3m in the improvement of services at its private hospital in Bath, which will involve an endoscopy suite, new consulting rooms, an MRI unit and operating theatre facilities. 30-Aug-2001 Primary Health Properties has announced a funding agreement with AAH Subsidiaries to acquire a new medical centre to be built in Stretford for £2.5m. 29-Aug-2001 Dundee University is to receive £8m of funding for the development of a new medical research centre, one of several Scottish institutions to attract funds under the £75m government scheme. 28-Aug-2001 Tayside Health Board is to relocate its headquarters from the Dundee Technology Park to the King's Cross Hospital later this year, raising the prospect of a call centre operator moving into its existing building. 20-Aug-2001 Williams Medical Supplies, the Blaenau Gwent-based medical supplies company, is planning to increase its workforce from 60 to 85 over the next three years, following an increase in demand from doctors' surgeries. 15-Aug-2001 ScotNursing is planning to open eight new nursing recruitment centres in Scotland and four in England, with the creation of 200 jobs over the next year. 14-Aug-2001 Kidsunlimited is planning to expand its chain of children's nurseries from 32 to 64 over the next five years with the creation of 1,000 jobs, having secured £12m of funding. 14-Aug-2001 New Forest District Council is considering plans from Colten Care for the development of a 40-bed nursing and residential home in Lymington. 14-Aug-2001 The London Heart Hospital has been sold by Parkway Healthcare of Singapore to the NHS for £27m, and will become the new cardiac centre for the University College London hospital. 08-Aug-2001 The Ulster Hospital in Belfast is to undergo a £98m modernisation programme over the next seven years, following an announcement by the Northern Ireland health minister. 01-Aug-2001 SIMS Portex is to close one of its two surgical equipment factories in Colchester, with the loss of up to 40 jobs. 30-Jul-2001 Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust has announced a £130m six-year plan to modernise NHS hospitals on Tyneside, including new cancer and kidney care facilities in a new block at the Freeman Hospital. 30-Jul-2001 North Bristol NHS Trust is looking into the possibility of building a £240m super hospital on a 66-acre greenfield site by 2009. 26-Jul-2001 Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust has awarded a £35m contract to Bilfinger & Berger for the refurbishment of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, and M+W Zander will take over facilities management of the site. 26-Jul-2001 Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has unveiled plans for the development of a new £30m surgical centre by 2005. 25-Jul-2001 Synergy Healthcare, the supplier of sterilisation services to hospitals, is planning to raise £8m in a flotation on Aim to fund the creation of new "clean rooms". 23-Jul-2001 Whipps Cross University Hospital in north east London has won outline planning permission for a £184m programme of improvements over the next five years. 19-Jul-2001 Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is planning to build a £23m children's hospital at Foresterhill, and has shortlisted four companies for the work - Hall & Tawse, Morrison, Balfour Beatty and Robertson. 12-Jul-2001 RS Biotech Laboratory Equipment is to invest £0.7m at its new factory in Irvine to produce incubators for the medical industry, with the creation of 12 jobs. 10-Jul-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has given the go-ahead for the development of a £23m community hospital in Merthyr Tydfil over the next five years. 09-Jul-2001 Henry Boot has won a £11m contract to design and build a three-storey ward block and day surgery unit at Mayday Hospital in Croydon. 06-Jul-2001 Telewest is to develop an interactive healthcare service for the National Health Service, using its broadband network to deliver information and advice via TV sets. 29-Jun-2001 Taylor Woodrow has been selected as preferred bidder to build a £10m medical and dental centre for the Ministry of Defence at Tidworth Garrison in Hampshire. 28-Jun-2001 MJ Gleeson has won a £36m contract to build the Evelina Children's Hospital in Lambeth for the Guys & St Thomas' Hospital Trust. 28-Jun-2001 Health Clinic is planning to develop an insurance product to cover GP, eye and dental care services, and expects to be operating a total of 15 eye clinics and five health clinics by the end of the year. 26-Jun-2001 Norwich City Council has approved plans for the development of a £9m medical school at the University of East Anglia. 25-Jun-2001 Interserve has won a £36m contract to operate two day care centres and a residential facility for Portsmouth Social Services. 15-Jun-2001 Oasis Healthcare has acquired a further five dental practices for £1.2m, taking the total to 43. 14-Jun-2001 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is to appoint a preferred bidder in September for a £12m contract to build the New Wharfedale Locality Hospital at Otley, near Leeds. 14-Jun-2001 South London & Maudsley NHS Trust is seeking contractors for a number of projects worth a total £30m, including a new 60-bed psychiatric unit and an extension to an existing unit. 13-Jun-2001 Primary Health Properties has reached agreement with Brackley Investments for the £1.2m acquisition of a new medical centre to be built in Coppice Farm, Willenhall. 05-Jun-2001 LiDCO, the manufacturer of heart monitors, is planning to raise about £17m in a flotation on Aim. 01-Jun-2001 James Hull Associates has raised £21m from Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance and 3i to fund the expansion of its chain of 30 private dental practices. 24-May-2001 Harlow Council has approved plans from Harlow Health Centres Trust for the development of a £4.5m 56-bed nursing home in Monkswick Road. 22-May-2001 Warburg Pincus has put its Craigmore nursing homes business up for sale, with a value of £200m. 21-May-2001 MMI Group is linking up with drug development company Covance Early Development Services to form the Bio-Starter Initiative, which will help NHS trusts exploit their research work and intellectual property assets. 21-May-2001 Interserve, the business services group, has won part of a £350m private finance initiative contract to redevelop the Dudley Group of Hospitals, which will involve the transfer of 900 NHS workers. 18-May-2001 Boots is planning to speed up the development of its laser eye clinics, with five more opening before August. 14-May-2001 The University of Plymouth has awarded a £15m contract to Bovis Lend Lease for the development of a medical school and health institute. 10-May-2001 RGIT Montrose Group is in negotiations to sell its Ethos Health & Safety subsidiary to Aon Occupational Health, in order to focus on global training solutions, emergency management and survival training. 08-May-2001 Community Hospitals Group is expected to sell off hospital buildings and fixed assets valued at £225m, to enable its new parent company Capio to focus on the provision of healthcare and fund further expansion into Germany. 07-May-2001 Kier has won a £198m contract from Prospect Healthcare to build a 200-bed hospital in Reading. 04-May-2001 The government has announced plans to invest £100m in maternity services, in order to provide an extra 2,000 midwives by 2005. 03-May-2001 The Scottish Executive has announced plans to invest £27m in hospitals in the Highlands & Islands, including £12m for a hospital in Lochgilphead, Argyll and £10m for the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall. 03-May-2001 Exeter City Council has approved plans for the development of a new medical school on Exeter University's St Luke's campus, and work is due for completion in May 2002. 26-Apr-2001 York District Hospital is to go-ahead with a £16m scheme to create an ophthalmology department and diabetes centre, and work is expected to start in the autumn. 26-Apr-2001 Northampton Community Healthcare NHS Trust has shortlisted Jarvis, Galliford and Balfour Beatty to build a £18m mental health hospital in Northampton. 25-Apr-2001 NHP is considering a number of takeover approaches for some of its 400 nursing homes, but has rejected a £30m bid for 20 properties from a group of investors. 24-Apr-2001 Oasis Healthcare is planning to expand its chain of dental practices from 36 to 100 by 2003, and will acquire about three practices a month over the next year. 17-Apr-2001 The Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow is to undergo a £16m extension over the next two years, including 26 new bedrooms and an operating theatre. 12-Apr-2001 The National Assembly for Wales has announced a £20m package for GP and hospital care across Wales, and target areas are thought to be cancer and heart services and improving staff recruitment. 11-Apr-2001 Bupa is seeking opportunities to expand its health care business in continental Europe, and is particularly interested in Spanish nursing homes. 10-Apr-2001 Hull University is to build a £22m medical school in partnership with York University, as part of a government scheme to train an extra 2,000 doctors nationwide. 02-Apr-2001 Glasgow University is to build a new £6m medical school on University Avenue. 30-Mar-2001 Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare Trust is planning to invest about £5m in IT systems over the next five years, including new developments such as telemedicine. 29-Mar-2001 North Durham NHS Trust has selected Robertson of Elgin as preferred bidder for a £10m contract to build a community hospital in Chester-le-Street. 29-Mar-2001 North Glasgow University Hospital NHS Trust is planning to build a national centre to provide specialist treatment for bone cancer at the Western Infirmary. 21-Mar-2001 PPP Healthcare is to recruit 170 more employees to deal with insurance claims in India this year, due to difficulties finding suitable staff for its base in Tunbridge Wells. 21-Mar-2001 The Scottish Executive is to recruit about 200 extra school nurses and 80 "health champions" over the next three years at a cost of £15m. 14-Mar-2001 Swansea NHS Trust is seeking private sector bids for the management of on-site residential services at Morriston Hospital. 14-Mar-2001 Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking contractors for a £75m project to consolidate acute services at the Queen Alexandra and St Mary's hospitals. 14-Mar-2001 TCT International is looking to raise £4.7m in a share placing in order to secure the future of its medical products business. 13-Mar-2001 Loop Customer Management is to create 80 jobs at a call centre in Bradford, having won a contract to organise appointments for the National Blood Service. 12-Mar-2001 Belfast City Hospital has won approval to set up a £4m regional cancer centre, which will provide day care and outpatient treatment on one site. 12-Mar-2001 Portsmouth City Council is to consider plans from US-backed Regents Park Healthcare for the development of a £30m private heart hospital. 07-Mar-2001 Omnilabs, the supplier of laboratory services to Bupa and Harley Street, has raised £2.8m to finance the expansion of the business. 05-Mar-2001 Community Hospitals Group has started work on the £3.5m expansion of the Rivers Hospital at Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, including a third operating theatre and 12 new in-patient rooms. 27-Feb-2001 Highland Primary Care NHS Trust has approved plans for the £4.6m refurbishment of the Nairn hospital, which will combine GPs, social workers and hospital staff onto one site. 26-Feb-2001 Barnet & Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust is to spend £41m upgrading old buildings at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. 20-Feb-2001 South Devon Healthcare Trust is planning to redevelop Torbay Hospital and build a new community facility at Newton Abbot at a cost of £65m. 19-Feb-2001 Avon & Western Wiltshire Trust is to invest £85m in improvements to mental health services in the Avon area over the next 10 years, including new buildings in Bristol and an enlarged unit in Weston-super-Mare. 19-Feb-2001 Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is to build a £160m 450-bed hospital in Tunbridge Wells, which will replace the run-down Kent & Sussex and Pembury hospitals. 19-Feb-2001 The Churchill Hospital in Oxford is planning to build a £28m Centre for Cancer Medicine. 19-Feb-2001 South & West Devon Health Authority is planning to build a new £73m hospital in Plymouth, while the existing Derriford site will be reorganised at a cost of £28m. 19-Feb-2001 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is planning to transform Leicester General Hospital into the UK's first purpose-built planned care centre and overhaul the remaining two hospitals for all emergency care, at a cost of £286m. 19-Feb-2001 North Kirklees Primary Care Group is to build a new health centre in Ravensthorpe, as part of a £12m investment in community health services in North Kirklees. 19-Feb-2001 Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust is to set up a £52m cancer care centre at Southampton General Hospital by 2006. 19-Feb-2001 The government has announced 29 new hospital schemes worth a total £3.1bn, including 20 surgery centres around the country and two major projects in Birmingham and Leicester. 16-Feb-2001 Ballast has won a £5m contract to modernise a dental and medical centre at RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate. 15-Feb-2001 North Cumbria Health Authority has won approval to build a new £10m hospital to replace the existing Workington Infirmary. 14-Feb-2001 East Herts Council has approved outline plans the East & North Herts NHS Trust for the redevelopment of Hertford County Hospital's North Road site. 13-Feb-2001 Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare Trust is planning to redevelop the Royal Hampshire County Hospital and the Andover War Memorial Community Hospital at a total cost of £26m. 06-Feb-2001 Lothian University NHS Trust is planning to shed 100 jobs at three Edinburgh hospitals in a bid to cut costs. 31-Jan-2001 Whittington Hospital in north London is to be expanded in a £25m private finance initiative project, and three consortia have been shortlisted for the construction work. 31-Jan-2001 Morrison has been selected as preferred bidder for a £24m hospital project in Oxford, which will involve construction work and facilities management for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust. 31-Jan-2001 MJ Gleeson has won two hospital extension contracts, including a £14m project at the Wansbeck General Hospital in Northumberland and £6m project at the Luton & Dunstable Hospital. 31-Jan-2001 Swindon & Marlborough NHS Trust has announced plans to build a 60-bed intensive rehabilitation centre next to Swindon's new hospital development at Commonhead. 29-Jan-2001 Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust has raised £1.4m to develop a medical assessment unit at Sandwell General Hospital. 26-Jan-2001 Affinity Healthcare is to invest £4m in a new 20-bed private psychiatric unit at Trees Park Village near Darlington, with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 24-Jan-2001 NHS Logistics Authority is to close its medical supplies distribution centre in Witham, Essex, in June with the loss of 60 jobs. 24-Jan-2001 Amtec is to double the staff at its Antrim base to more than 50 people in the next two years, having won a £40m contract to supply a portable blood clot detection device to Smith & Nephew. 19-Jan-2001 The government has allocated a further £30m to ensure that hospitals are cleaned to national standards next year. 18-Jan-2001 Patientline is planning to raise £30m to fund the installation of TV and telephone services in hospitals, and has won a government licence to use its system in NHS hospitals. 17-Jan-2001 Community Hospitals, the operator of 21 private hospitals, has received a number of takeover approaches that will be considered over the next few weeks. 15-Jan-2001 Primal Pictures, the developer of interactive 3D medical images, is planning to raise £3m to fund the development of new products. 08-Jan-2001 Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust is looking to sell the General Hospital and the Victoria Eye Hospital sites for a total £3m, as part of a plan to transfer services to the new County Hospital. 05-Jan-2001 Nottingham City Hospital and the Queen's Medical Centre are planning to update their pathology services at a cost of £14m. 03-Jan-2001 Duchy Hospital, the private hospital in Truro, is to undergo a £2m expansion that will include the creation of a new high-dependency unit. 02-Jan-2001 Daventry District Council is to consider plans for the £8m redevelopment of Danetre Hospital, which will involve new beds and improvements to outpatient services. 02-Jan-2001
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