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VisionTec CL, the developer of disposable contact lenses, is to relocate to a new £3m headquarters in Plymouth, with the creation of up to 100 jobs over the next two years. 31-Dec-2002 St Richards Hospital in Chichester is to build a new £9m diagnostic and treatment centre by March 2005. 24-Dec-2002 The Department of Health is to allow eight private sector companies to take over the management of failing NHS hospitals, including Bupa, Serco, BMI, Capio, Interhealth Canada, Secta, Quo Health and Hospitalia ActivHealth. 20-Dec-2002 NHS Argyll & Clyde is to invest more than £2m in mental health services, including a new dementia assessment centre at Dumbarton Joint Hospital. 17-Dec-2002 The Department of Health Social Services & Public Safety (DHSSPS) in Northern Ireland has pledged £70m to fund another new hospital building at the Royal Victoria in Belfast, including an imaging centre and casualty department. 13-Dec-2002 ScotNursing has received an investment of more than £1m from Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Private Equity, to fund the expansion of its chain of ten nursing agency branches to 30 over the next 18 months. 13-Dec-2002 Teignbridge Primary Care NHS Trust is seeking permission to build a new £10m hospital in Newton Abbot by 2006. 13-Dec-2002 Ninewells Hospital in Dundee has unveiled plans to spend more than £6m upgrading three children's wards and a haematology unit, as part of an ongoing commitment to improve services at the site. 12-Dec-2002 Arran Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a £7.5m contract to Barr to redevelop Crosshouse hospital in Kilmarnock. 12-Dec-2002 Hinchingbrooke NHS Trust has selected the Prospect Healthcare consortium as preferred bidder to build a £20m ambulatory care and diagnostic centre in Huntingdon. 11-Dec-2002 The Department of Health is to invite private healthcare companies to build 10 ophthalmic centres, 10 general surgical centres and seven orthopaedic centres, as part of a strategy to cut waiting times. 09-Dec-2002 Medical Solutions is considering plans to relocate its head office from Leeds to Nottingham, in order to combine all its business units onto one site. 06-Dec-2002 The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore has submitted outline plans for a £125m four-year rebuilding programme. 06-Dec-2002 Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has announced plans to build a £15m medical research and training centre at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro by September 2004, with the creation of up to 400 jobs. 04-Dec-2002 Doncaster Council has approved plans for the development of a £1.4m dental centre next to Mexborough's Montagu Hospital. 02-Dec-2002 Balfour Beatty's Heery International division has won a contract worth up to £100m to manage the redevelopment and expansion of five National Blood Service centres in Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and London. 27-Nov-2002 Greater Manchester Health Authority has received proposals from OR International of the US for the development of a private heart hospital in Manchester. 26-Nov-2002 Ashbourne Specialist Health is considering plans to set up a 40-bed secure psychiatric hospital on the Gainsborough House site at Abergele in North Wales, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 20-Nov-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is to help fund the development of a new cancer research laboratory in Wales, as part of the Welsh Translational Research Centre, but details have not yet been finalised. 20-Nov-2002 Taylor Woodrow has won a £30m contract from the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust to build a tertiary cardiac centre. 20-Nov-2002 The Scottish Executive is to consider plans for a £9m expansion project at the Chalmers Hospital in Banff, and work could start by the end of 2003. 13-Nov-2002 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has announced plans for a £400m programme of improvements at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General and Glenfield Hospital. 13-Nov-2002 Tendring and Colchester Primary Care Trusts have announced a £25m project to improve health services in the two districts, including the redevelopment of Dovercourt Health Centre and Harwich Hospital and a new primary care centre in Colchester. 11-Nov-2002 Pets Naturally is planning to raise £1.3m to fund the development of a national chain of veterinary practices, and will also launch a range of animal healthcare products. 11-Nov-2002 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking bids for a £90m project to build new acute facilities at the Churchill Hospital site and to relocate other services. 06-Nov-2002 Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has secured £8.3m of government funding to provide additional beds at New Cross Hospital by 2004, in preparation for the opening a new £13m radiology centre. 30-Oct-2002 City of York Council is to consider plans from Nuffield Hospitals for the development of a new private hospital at the Nestle Rowntree site. 29-Oct-2002 North East Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust has announced plans to spend £12m replacing doctors' surgeries with eight new health centres and seven smaller surgeries in Grimsby. 28-Oct-2002 Robinson is planning to relocate its healthcare products business from Chesterfield to Carlton-in-Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, by July 2003, which will affect about 300 staff. 22-Oct-2002 Carmarthenshire NHS Trust is planning to spend £7m improving and expanding services at the West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen, and work is expected to start within two years. 18-Oct-2002 Derby City Council has received plans from Skanska Innisfree for the city's £240m superhospital development project, showing details of construction work to be carried out on the Derby City General Hospital site. 18-Oct-2002 Balfour Beatty has won a £12m contract from Lomond & Argyll Primary Care NHS Trust to build a healthcare unit at the Mid Argyll Hospital site in Lochgilphead. 17-Oct-2002 The Stracathro Hospital in Brechin is to undergo a £10m redevelopment over the next three years, with £6.4m allocated to building work and the rest for equipment. 14-Oct-2002 Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a £12m contract to Robertson to build a community resource centre in Forfar. 10-Oct-2002 Costain is to build a £11m paediatric and maternity unit at Ormskirk Hospital and a £8m medical health unit at Countess of Chester Health Park. 09-Oct-2002 Adkins Medical is to set up a market research office in Pembroke Dock with the creation of 40 jobs, in order to conduct phone surveys of medical practitioners. 08-Oct-2002 Sandwell Council has received a planning application from Prime Developments for the construction of a £7m health centre in Moor Street, West Bromwich, to house doctor surgeries, dentistry, public health and social services. 07-Oct-2002 Warrington Hospital is planning to build a £1.8m cardiac centre, as part of a £11m investment in the modernisation of local health services. 07-Oct-2002 Norwest Holst has won a £50m contract to redevelop the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals, under the ProCure 21 building programme. 02-Oct-2002 Costain has won a £13m contract to build new facilities at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shropshire. 02-Oct-2002 Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust has unveiled plans to set up a £6m research centre at Castle Hill Hospital in Hull, to study new treatments for cancer and heart disease. 30-Sep-2002 EDS has won a £91m contract to provide 1.2m NHS employees with access to e-mail. 30-Sep-2002 York Health Services NHS Trust is considering plans to use modular construction techniques to create a new £2m ear, nose and throat department at York District Hospital. 26-Sep-2002 Bupa is to close the One Stop Medical Centre in Coventry with the loss of up to 18 jobs in October, and patients will be transferred to other centres nearby. 23-Sep-2002 Generics and Siemens are forming a new Cambridge-based company called Sphere to develop a new method of using silicon chips to monitor the blood condition of hospital patients. 23-Sep-2002 Shepherd Construction has won a £22m contract to build three new buildings at the Royal Preston Hospital. 18-Sep-2002 NHS Estates is preparing to announce plans for the £3bn construction of 150 diagnostic and treatment units by 2005, and the units will be built and operated by the private sector and staffed by international teams of clinicians. 18-Sep-2002 North Durham NHS Trust is to merge with its South Durham counterpart to form County Durham & Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which is expected to lead to the creation of a special care baby unit and gynaecology facilities at Darlington Memorial Hospital. 16-Sep-2002 Sandwell Council has approved plans for a £9.8m health centre in Albert Street, including a GP practice, consulting suites and offices. 16-Sep-2002 Carillion is linking up with BMI and Nestor to bid for the development of fast-track NHS surgery centres. 12-Sep-2002 Miller Group and Bank of Scotland have announced a £400m deal to acquire 120 former hospital sites abandoned during the NHS Care in the Community initiative, which will involve the transfer of 278 staff from the Inventures subsidiary of NHS Estates. 12-Sep-2002 Ora Dental Group, the chain of nine dental practices in the London area that was launched three years ago with the backing of Kleinwort Benson Development Capital, has been put up for sale. 12-Sep-2002 Clinovia, the provider of home care support services, is to create 30 jobs at a new base in Derby in January. 11-Sep-2002 South Birmingham Mental Health Trust is planning to establish three new acute psychiatric in-patient buildings in Sparkhill, Stirchley and Edgbaston, to replace services currently provided at the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital. 09-Sep-2002 The Department of Health is planning to transfer the staff and premises of the PHLS network of 47 public health laboratories to the NHS by next April. 09-Sep-2002 South Worcestershire Primary Care Trust is considering plans for a new £13m hospital community health resource centre in Malvern. 06-Sep-2002 The London Ambulance Service is looking to recruit up to 400 paramedics, following an increase in the number of 999 calls. 06-Sep-2002 Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust is planning to build a £9m training centre and patient hotel at its site in central London. 05-Sep-2002 Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust is planning to build a £13m oncology centre at the Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, and is seeking a contractor to start work in December 2003. 04-Sep-2002 Magstim, the manufacturer of electronic medical equipment, is to create 16 jobs at its new 13,000 sq ft factory, laboratory and office complex in Carmarthenshire. 03-Sep-2002 North Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking contractors for a £250m private finance hospital project, involving the construction of a teaching hospital at the City General site in Stoke-on-Trent. 30-Aug-2002 Rotherham District General Hospital NHS Trust has awarded a £4m contract to Wildgoose to build a mental health unit. 29-Aug-2002 Kingston Hospitals NHS Trust is planning a £23m expansion at Kingston Hospital, including new surgery, gynaecology and physiotherapy units. 22-Aug-2002 Partnerships UK has announced a further 24 schemes to build and maintain surgeries and healthcare centres throughout the country, under the government's NHS LIFT programme. 21-Aug-2002 West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds is to build a new £5m diagnostic and treatment centre. 20-Aug-2002 Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust is planning to build three temporary wards and two temporary operating theatres at Bradford Royal Infirmary, at a cost of £5m. 20-Aug-2002 Baggaley Construction has won a £5.2m contract to build a breast care centre at Nottingham City Hospital. 19-Aug-2002 Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust is planning a £15m extension at the Salisbury District Hospital by 2004, including new orthopaedic and burns wards. 19-Aug-2002 Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a £1.6m contract to John Turner for a new office and laboratory development in Liverpool. 15-Aug-2002 CR Bard is to close its healthcare products factory in Clacton with the loss of 166 jobs. 13-Aug-2002 The Scottish Parliament has approved a £700m plan to upgrade five hospitals in Glasgow, including the Southern General Hospital, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Gartnavel General Hospital and Stobhill Hospital. 13-Aug-2002 Morecambe Bay NHS Hospitals Trust has awarded two contracts worth £9.6m to Allenbuild to build a mental illness unit at Ulverston Hospital and a rehabilitation ward at Furness Hospital. 08-Aug-2002 North Tyneside Primary Care Trust is seeking partners for a £45m project to improve surgeries and health centres in the Newcastle area. 08-Aug-2002 Addenbrooke NHS Trust and Cambridge University are to select from four consortia for the development of a £55m elective care facility at Addenbrooke's Hospital. 25-Jul-2002 Barnsley Primary Care Trust has shortlisted three bidders for a £40m NHS LIFT contract to rebuild or refurbish GP surgeries and primary care centres. 24-Jul-2002 East Midlands Nuffield Hospital in Littleover has started work on a £7m expansion programme, being carried out by GF Tomlinson of Derby, in order to provide new rooms, a third operating theatre and other facilities. 23-Jul-2002 Huddersfield Royal Infirmary is planning to build two new operating theatres and a diagnostic laboratory by May 2003, at a cost of £3.7m. 22-Jul-2002 Ninewells Hospital in Dundee is to receive a £5m investment from the Breast Cancer Research Scotland charity over the next five years, in order to create a world-class research unit. 22-Jul-2002 Doctors Direct is to raise £1m in a flotation on Ofex, in order to expand its network of 3,000 mobile doctors and nurses. 22-Jul-2002 Mid Staffordshire General Hospital Trust is planning to build a £20m diagnostic and treatment centre at Staffordshire General Hospital, and has also announced plans to recruit 130 new doctors, nurses and support staff at hospitals in Cannock and Stafford. 19-Jul-2002 Hull City Council is linking up with West Hull and Eastern Hull Primary Care Trusts to launch a £30m long-term programme of improvements to community health services, including the refurbishment of doctors' surgeries across the city. 19-Jul-2002 North Middlesex Hospital in Edmonton is to undergo a £74m revamp, including new offices, clinics, consulting rooms and training centre, and work on the project is due to start in July 2004. 18-Jul-2002 Kent County Council has awarded a £15m contract to Costain to build and maintain two social and health care centres at Margate and Tenterden. 18-Jul-2002 Rokbuild has won a £5m contract to build a community hospital and health centre for Cornwall NHS Healthcare Trust in Liskeard. 18-Jul-2002 Wyre Forest District Council has approved plans for the development of a £14m diagnostic and treatment centre at Kidderminster hospital, including three theatres, an outpatient suite, short-stay wards and a maternity unit. 12-Jul-2002 Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a private sector partner for the development of a £47m clinical building at the University Hospital. 10-Jul-2002 Grampian Primary Care Trust is considering a number of potential sites for a £6m community hospital and health centre, and one possible location is a disused supermarket in Forres. 09-Jul-2002 Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust is planning a £44m project to replace the East Wing at the Manor Hospital, in order to build a new children's unit, day treatment centre and pathology department. 08-Jul-2002 The Bryn y Neuadd learning disabilities hospital in North Wales is to close, and the 88 residents will be given alternative accommodation in the community. 05-Jul-2002 Northern Ireland Executive has approved plans for the development of a £57m regional cancer centre at the City Hospital in Belfast, as part of a £270m spending package for hospitals and schools. 03-Jul-2002 Bovis Lend Lease has been selected as preferred bidder for a £162m children's hospital project next to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, as part of the Catalyst consortium. 03-Jul-2002 Gateshead Health NHS Trust is to spend £30m on modernisation programmes at the Queen Elizabeth hospital. 01-Jul-2002 Integrated Dental Holdings has acquired a further nine private dental practices across the country for £1.8m, taking the total to 143. 27-Jun-2002 Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow has won approval to spend a further £3m on the refurbishment of its maternity unit. 25-Jun-2002 The National Assembly for Wales has outlined plans for the creation of 8,700 new healthcare jobs in Wales over the next eight years, including nurses, consultants, general practitioners and other professionals. 21-Jun-2002 The Scottish Executive is planning to buy the HCI hospital in Clydebank from the Abu Dhabi Investment Company for £37m, in order to reduce waiting lists by creating a "National Waiting Times Centre". 21-Jun-2002 Plymouth City Council is looking into the possibility of building a new £6m 40-bed residential home in Plympton and closing four existing homes, as part of a review of its care for elderly people. 21-Jun-2002 Galliford Try has been selected by Northamptonshire Community NHS Trust as preferred bidder to build a £6m mental health unit in Kettering. 19-Jun-2002 Neilcott has won a £8.5m contract to build a new wing at St Joseph's Hospice in Hackney. 19-Jun-2002 St Jude Medical is relocating the UK headquarters of its medical supplies business and 50 staff from Coventry to a 10,000 sq ft office at the Stratford-upon-Avon Business & Technology Park. 19-Jun-2002 Birmingham Dental Hospital could be sold off and rebuilt elsewhere, as a report being considered by the South Birmingham Primary Care Trust estimates that up to £20m is required to modernise the current site. 14-Jun-2002 Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust has awarded a £4m contract to Robertson to build a new home for the elderly in Edinburgh. 13-Jun-2002 OCDEM, the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, has received a £3.2m donation from Takeda of Japan for the development of the £12m diabetes research centre at the Churchill Hospital in Headington. 12-Jun-2002 Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is to invest £17m updating buildings and equipment at Sandwell, Rowley Regis and Birmingham's City hospitals this year, in order to provide more critical care beds and modernise emergency care. 10-Jun-2002 Carillion Services has won a £50m contract from Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Trust to supply a range of services to hospitals in Lincolnshire, including laundry, catering and portering. 06-Jun-2002 Bupa is to acquire a 50% stake in Axa Health, the Australian private health insurer, for £227m. 06-Jun-2002 Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust is to spend more than £4m upgrading the sterile services department at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. 05-Jun-2002 Torex has acquired Amersham Medical Systems, the Berkhamsted-based supplier of IT systems to the healthcare market, for £8.1m. 30-May-2002 St Helens & Knowsley NHS Trust has announced plans for a £228m hospital rebuilding programme, involving sites at the Whiston, St Helens and Newton hospitals and the creation of more than 500 jobs. 30-May-2002 Redcar Council and the Langbaurgh Primary Care Trust have announced plans for a multi-million pound project to build a new hospital and social care facility in Redcar and to replace the Stead Memorial Hospital and Wheatacres Home. 30-May-2002 The NHS is planning to spend £5bn improving its IT systems over the next six years, in order to set up electronic patient records and electronic subscribing. 30-May-2002 Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley Primary Care Trust is seeking a consortium to build and operate a £25m hospital at its Gravesend & North Kent Hospital site. 30-May-2002 Aortech is to shed 50 jobs at its medical products business in Bellshill, in order to transfer some production to Becton Dickinson in Singapore. 27-May-2002 Johnson & Johnson of the US is forming a joint venture with Inventures to help establish some of the 20 NHS minor operations units being planned by the government. 24-May-2002 Patientline is raising £38m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its business supplying phones and other services to hospital patients. 24-May-2002 Hill-rom is to expand its 200-strong Leicestershire-based workforce, having won a £5m contract to supply 2,000 specialist beds to University Hospital Wales over the next two years. 22-May-2002 Leeds Community & Mental Health Services Trust is creating more than 150 jobs as part of a £47m overhaul of mental health services, which will provide new facilities at seven locations across Leeds. 21-May-2002 NHP is planning to raise £34m in a rights issue to fund the acquisition of more care homes. 20-May-2002 Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare Trust has awarded a £4m contract to Leadbitter to build a new mental health unit at the Tatchbury Mount Hospital. 17-May-2002 PDSA is planning to set up a £0.5m PetAid animal hospital in Birkenhead, with the creation of 16 jobs. 16-May-2002 Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham has secured £1m of funding to set up a new catheter suite to treat heart patients over the next 18 months. 09-May-2002 Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust has announced plans for a £1.5m extension to the pathology laboratories at Southampton General Hospital and a £2m extension of the east wing, with the creation of about 50 jobs. 09-May-2002 The National Assembly for Wales is supporting plans for the development of a clinical school of medicine in Bangor by 2004, incorporating Bangor University, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd at Bodelwyddan and Wrexham hospital. 02-May-2002 NHS Estates is expected to soon announce plans to expand its ProCure 21 hospital building programme across the country, having just awarded pilot contracts in the North West and West Midlands to Laing, Costain, Interserve, Norwest Holst and Medicor. 02-May-2002 The Department of Health is to consider recommendations from the Strategic Committee on Sterilisation to allow private companies to take a greater role in cleaning surgical equipment and to centralise decontamination at about 100 "centres of excellence". 02-May-2002 Oasis Healthcare is planning to double the size of its chain of 67 dental practices over the next two years, having agreed a £25m debt facility. 01-May-2002 Peterborough City Council has received an outline planning application from the Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust to build a new £135m hospital at the Edith Cavell site. 30-Apr-2002 Newcastle University and the Northern Institute for Cancer Research are planning to build a £11m cancer research centre near Claremont Terrace, to combine 150 staff from the various university research units. 29-Apr-2002 Notts Healthcare Trust has announced plans to invest £11m in improvements at the Highbury mental hospital in Bulwell, including a new 22-bed ward. 24-Apr-2002 Morecambe Bay NHS Hospitals Trust is planning to set up a £4.5m medical training centre at Ashton Road in Lancaster for the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. 22-Apr-2002 HCA International, the US healthcare provider with six hospitals in London, has reached agreement to provide cancer treatment services worth £50m to 10,000 NHS patients a year. 22-Apr-2002 Tayside Primary Care NHS Trust has awarded a £4m contract to Morrison to build a primary care centre in Montrose. 18-Apr-2002 SSL International is to close its Toft Hall headquarters in Cheshire and shed 300 jobs, in order to improve the profitability of its health care products business. 17-Apr-2002 Derriford Hospital in Plymouth is expected to create thousands of new jobs over the next 10 years, as a result of a series of expansion projects including a new £100m facility due to open in 2007. 15-Apr-2002 Huntleigh Technology has acquired the remaining 50% of Renray David Baker, the provider of hospital fitting-out services, for undisclosed terms. 11-Apr-2002 South Gloucestershire Council has approved plans for the development of a £1.2m urology research centre at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. 11-Apr-2002 Camden Primary Care Trust and its Islington counterpart are seeking private sector partners to provide a range of property refurbishment and maintenance services over the next 25 years. 10-Apr-2002 Affinity Healthcare is creating 20 new jobs at its Tees Valley-based private healthcare business, due to an increase in the range of care services on offer. 08-Apr-2002 NHS Borders has submitted plans to the Scottish Executive for the £4m upgrade of three local cottage hospitals at Duns, Peebles and Kelso. 05-Apr-2002 Costain has won a £9.5m contract from Stonebridge Community Housing Trust to build a health and community centre in north-west London. 04-Apr-2002 Leapfrog Day Nurseries is planning to raise £30m in a flotation to fund the expansion of its chain of 34 children's day-care nurseries. 02-Apr-2002 Corin Group, the producer of artificial hips, is planning to raise £22m in a flotation and expand overseas. 02-Apr-2002 Primary Health Properties and Brackley Investments are forming a property development joint venture called Primary Health Solutions, in order to build new health facilities such as doctor's surgeries, medical centres and chemists. 02-Apr-2002 Aberdeen City Council is considering plans from McCarthy & Stone for the £3m transformation of the Thorngrove House nursing home into a retirement complex. 21-Mar-2002 Coventry City Council is considering plans for the development of a private hospital, with 70 beds and six operating theatres, on land within the grounds of the city's new superhospital. 19-Mar-2002 Misys is set to win a £3m contract to provide pathology systems for five London hospitals. 18-Mar-2002 Westminster Healthcare is in discussions with a number of companies about plans to sell the Priory chain of private health clinics for at least £300m. 18-Mar-2002 Royal Berkshire & Battle NHS Trust is seeking contractors for a £23m expansion project at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, including the construction of 11 wards. 13-Mar-2002 Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust is to lease the private Stamford Hospital in west London for 15 years, in order to increase capacity and cut waiting times for hip and knee replacements. 07-Mar-2002 Rother District Council is to consider plans from Priory Healthcare for the relocation of the Ticehurst House psychiatric hospital to Pagoda Field, and the existing site will be converted into 51 houses by Rydon Homes. 04-Mar-2002 Oasis Healthcare has acquired general dental practices in Hull, Melton Mowbray and Seaford for £1.3m, taking its total estate to 263 surgeries. 28-Feb-2002 West Cheshire Hospital is planning a £14m modernisation programme to create a new mental health unit with 103 beds by 2004. 28-Feb-2002 The Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow is to recruit 50 new staff, mainly nurses, due to an expected £2m increase in its annual budget. 19-Feb-2002 South Northants Council is looking into the possibility of building a £3.5m hospital and sheltered housing scheme at Springfield Way in Brackley. 15-Feb-2002 Bupa Properties is planning a £5m project to build an operating theatre and extend outpatient facilities at Roundhay Hall in Leeds. 14-Feb-2002 St Helens & Knowsley NHS Trust has awarded a £1.8m contract to Simons to refurbish an operating theatre at the Whiston hospital in Prescot. 14-Feb-2002 Brighton Health Care NHS Trust has won government permission to start looking for a developer to build a new home for the Royal Alexandra Hospital For Sick Children in Brighton, as part of a £1.1bn government programme for public-private hospital building. 13-Feb-2002 Cardiff County Council is in discussions with the University of Wales College of Medicine about the possibility of setting up a £20m interactive medicine museum on the Cardiff Royal Infirmary site. 12-Feb-2002 Bradford Health Authority is planning to sell off its historic Saltaire headquarters later this year for about £2m, and staff will be relocated to the district's Primary Care Trusts or the new strategic health authority in Leeds. 12-Feb-2002 Plymouth City Council has approved plans for the development of a £13m health studies centre for the Peninsula Medical School at a site near Derriford hospital. 11-Feb-2002 Ormskirk Hospital is to spend £24m on a new Women and Children's Centre and extended A&E department over the next five years, while Southport Hospital will spend £16m on a refurbished A&E department, new operating theatres and enhanced laboratory facilities. 07-Feb-2002 Mid Devon Primary Care Trust is planning to build a new £11m hospital at the Kennedy Way site in Tiverton, and hopes to start work in the spring. 06-Feb-2002 Cancer Research UK is to invest £75m in the creation of research institutes in partnership with the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Newcastle upon Tyne. 05-Feb-2002 Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital has secured funding to build a new £17m maternity unit by 2005. 04-Feb-2002 Lancashire County Council is planning to close or sell off 35 old people's homes, as it cannot afford the £14m needed to bring the properties up to government standards by 2007. 04-Feb-2002 Leicestershire Health Authority has announced plans to recruit 180 new nurses, in a £3m investment designed to ease waiting lists in Leicester's hospitals. 01-Feb-2002 West Sussex Health Authority is to consider proposals from a review group for the development of a £273m hospital near Crawley, in order to secure the long-term future of health services in north Sussex and south-east Surrey. 31-Jan-2002 The Scottish Parliament has approved plans for the development of a £50m cancer unit for the west of Scotland, which will involve the relocation of Glasgow's Beatson Oncology Centre from the Western Infirmary to a new facility at Gartnavel Hospital. 30-Jan-2002 Mid Essex Hospitals Trust has announced plans to build a £4m day surgery unit at the Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford. 30-Jan-2002 North Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking suitable premises for the headquarters of the region's new NHS "super-authority", and York Science Park is said to be the favoured location. 30-Jan-2002 Primary Health Properties has announced an agreement with Brackley Investments to acquire a new medical centre to be constructed on the Lancaster University Campus. 29-Jan-2002 Carrick Primary Care Trust is planning to transform Truro City Hospital into a "health park", including buildings for GPs, social services staff, mental health workers, chiropodists and school nurses. 25-Jan-2002 The Ministry of Defence is to build a £12m primary health centre at Tidworth in Andover by June 2003, to serve the town's military and civilian community. 18-Jan-2002 Mount Anvil is to build a £12m healthcare and housing scheme in north London for Haringey NHS Primary Care Trust and Circle 33 Housing Trust. 14-Jan-2002 Oasis Healthcare has acquired general dental practices in Gloucester and Warrington for a total £0.6m, taking its total estate to 57 sites. 08-Jan-2002 The Scottish Executive is planning to set up a 24-hour NHS call centre at the HCI private hospital in Clydebank, in order to provide health advice services to the west of Scotland. 02-Jan-2002 The information below comes from the UK Activity Report. 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