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Essentiagroup is planning to create a further 200 jobs at its health and social welfare call centre in Glasgow over the next three years. 22-Dec-2005 Birmingham City Council is planning to spend more than £15m improving health care in Aston, including a new health centre and a new outreach health scheme. 14-Dec-2005 Wokingham Primary Care Trust is planning to build a £1.7m primary care centre in Shinfield by 2007. 08-Dec-2005 Home Instead is looking to set up a network of almost 200 offices across the country to provide care for the elderly in their own homes, and the first has just opened at Chester Gates near Ellesmere Port. 08-Dec-2005 Lombard Medical Technologies, the supplier of stents to treat blocked arteries with sites in Didcot and Sheffield, has raised £26m in a flotation on Aim. 08-Dec-2005 Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust has formed a partnership with Mansfield District Primary Care Trust and Skanska Innisfree to invest £300m in the modernisation of King's Mill, Mansfield Community and Newark General hospitals by 2011. 07-Dec-2005 Wyre Forest Primary Care Trust has announced a multi-million pound plan to replace Kidderminster Health Centre with a new building on the same site in Bromsgrove Street. 06-Dec-2005 Wandsworth Primary Care Trust is to shed 110 management and administration jobs, in an attempt to balance its £8.3m deficit. 01-Dec-2005 Mersey Care NHS Trust is planning to build a new £40m mental health resource centre in Fazakerley, north Liverpool. 30-Nov-2005 North Cumbria Mental Health & Learning Disabilities NHS Trust has secured £18m of government funding to upgrade facilities and provide more services in a home environment. 28-Nov-2005 Carillion and Lodestone Patient Care have been selected as preferred bidders to build and operate two Independent Sector Treatment Centres at Hemel Hempstead and Lister hospitals in Hertfordshire, through their Clinicenta joint venture. 25-Nov-2005 The John Munroe Independent Hospital is to submit plans for the development of a £18m retirement village in Helsby, which would create jobs for 40 nursing staff and 50 care assistants. 25-Nov-2005 Swale Primary Care Trust is to shed up to 41 administrative jobs in Kent, due to a £6.5m overspend. 25-Nov-2005 Preston Council is to consider plans for the development of a health port at the former Sharoe Green Hospital site, including a two-storey block of consulting rooms and a mobile operating theatre. 23-Nov-2005 Plymouth City Council is planning to overhaul its social care for adults, with the closure of three day care centres and a residential home. 23-Nov-2005 The Healthcare Commission has initiated the closure of the privately-run St Luke's mental hospital in Attleborough, Norfolk, due to concerns about the level of staff training. 23-Nov-2005 Nord Anglia, the education and nurseries group, is to relocate its head office from Cheadle to Burton-upon-Trent next month, with the loss of about 40 jobs. 22-Nov-2005 The Scottish Executive is to launch a £25m health initiative that aims to "shift the focus of the NHS from illness to wellbeing", in order to improve the lifestyle of people living in Greater Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Lothian and Tayside. 22-Nov-2005 Care Clinic, the Nottinghamshire-based fertility clinic, is to relocate from the Park Hospital to a site near junction 26 of the M1 early next year. 22-Nov-2005 Claimar Care Group, the Birmingham-based chain of 18 care homes with about 800 staff, is planning to raise £7.5m in a share placing. 21-Nov-2005 The Department of Health has approved initial proposals for a £190m redevelopment programme at West London Mental Health Trust's Broadmoor hospital in Berkshire. 18-Nov-2005 The Department of Health has announced that £90m will be invested in new mental health facilities at Tameside Hospital by 2010, while Hope Hospital in Salford will spend £130m on new heart care, renal and urology units. 16-Nov-2005 Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry is to shed about 250 jobs, in order to prepare for next year's move into a new hospital. 15-Nov-2005 Essentiagroup, the health and social welfare specialist, is to create 20 new jobs at its contact centre in Brora, as part of an expansion project backed by Caithness & Sutherland Enterprise. 15-Nov-2005 Devon County Council has awarded a three-year contract to Care South to provide home-based care services, which will create 150 new jobs. 15-Nov-2005 Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is expected to shed up to 200 of the 3,000 jobs at the Peterborough District, Edith Cavell and Stamford hospitals over the next 16 months. 14-Nov-2005 The Department of Health has awarded a share of £60m to 19 councils across the country, under the Partnership for Older People scheme, which will involve the development of various health centres and home support services. 10-Nov-2005 Healthcare Locums, the provider of health professionals with 175 staff at two call centres, is to raise £15m in a share placing on Aim, in order to reduce debt and prepare for acquisitions. 07-Nov-2005 Bedfordshire County Council is to build 18 new children's centres by 2008, at a cost of £6m, in order to provide a one-stop shop for childcare, health and social services and parent support. 03-Nov-2005 Rotherham Hospital is considering plans to shed hundreds of jobs from its 3,500-strong workforce, in order to reduce costs by £3m. 01-Nov-2005 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust are conducting a feasibility study into plans to build a £200m health technology and business park at Ansty, near Coventry, which could create up to 5,000 jobs. 28-Oct-2005 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the development of a new centre for heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, including 117 beds, four operating theatres and four laboratories. 28-Oct-2005 The Department of Health is planning to invest £130m in the modernisation of mental health facilities across the country, and will start allocating funds next year. 27-Oct-2005 The Scottish Parliament has announced a £15m fund to build new one-stop shops for health, in order to combine different services and improve frontline care. 24-Oct-2005 Duke Street Capital is looking to sell Paragon Healthcare Group, the operator of about 230 care homes with 4,000 staff, for up to £400m. 24-Oct-2005 NHS Borders is considering plans to close Coldstream Cottage Hospital next year, in order to transfer patients to hospitals in Duns and Kelso. 21-Oct-2005 The NHS Pensions Agency is to relocate to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where 800 jobs will be created with the amalgamation of the Prescriptions Pricing Authority and the Dental Practice Board into the new Business Services Authority. 21-Oct-2005 Southern Cross Healthcare is to start recruiting 100 staff for a new £3.2m care home due to open in York next year. 21-Oct-2005 Wychavon District Council has appointed Ashford to build a £4.7m hospital and health centre in Wychavon. 20-Oct-2005 Atos Origin has won a £8m contract to operate a walk-in NHS clinic for commuters at Manchester's Piccadilly station, while General Medical Clinics has won a similar contract for London's Liverpool Street station. 18-Oct-2005 Central and Greater Derby Primary Care Trusts are seeking permission to build a £2.2m walk-in health centre in the grounds of Derbyshire Royal Infirmary by 2007. 18-Oct-2005 Harley Medical Group, the chain of 11 cosmetic surgery clinics valued at up to £75m, has appointed Cavendish Corporate Finance to provide advice on a number of unsolicited takeover approaches. 17-Oct-2005 West Sussex Health & Social Care NHS Trust is seeking permission to build a £7m children's mental health unit at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath. 13-Oct-2005 Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority is planning to outsource the management of services for the Oxfordshire primary care trusts, and several UK and overseas organisations are said to be interested in bidding. 13-Oct-2005 The West Midlands Specialised Services Agency (WMSSA) has unveiled proposals for a new £37m mental health unit at the former Yardley Green Hospital site in Birmingham. 04-Oct-2005 University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is planning to increase the workforce at its recently-opened pension and payroll administration centre in Stoke-on-Trent from 25 to more than 100 over the next few months. 04-Oct-2005 Rotherham Primary Care Trust and the Coalfields Regeneration Trust are to open a £10m facility for people with severe lung disease on the former Badsley Moor Lane Hospital site in autumn 2006. 04-Oct-2005 NHS 24 is to recruit 100 more staff for its Scottish telephone-based health advice helpline, and five new regional centres will be set up. 30-Sep-2005 The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has awarded £2.6m of funding to the Royal Hospitals to design new women's and children's hospitals in Belfast, and work on the £300m project is expected to start by May 2008. 29-Sep-2005 NHS Fife has secured outline consent to build a new multi-million pound hospital and health centre in St Andrews. 29-Sep-2005 Guardian Care Homes is looking to spend up to £15m developing its chain of 32 care homes and acquiring new sites. 27-Sep-2005 CareTech is planning to raise £10m in a flotation on Aim next month to fund the expansion of its chain of 61 care homes for people with learning disabilities. 19-Sep-2005 IDMoS is to raise £2.3m in a share placing to fund the commercial development of its disease detection and monitoring technology. 16-Sep-2005 Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust is planning to build a new mental hospital at Manor House in Aylesbury, in order to replace the Tindal Hospital in Aylesbury and the Haleacre unit in Amersham. 16-Sep-2005 West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority is planning to merge the four ambulance trusts in the West Midlands into one regional body. 15-Sep-2005 Willmott Dixon has won a £6.6m contract from A2 Home Ownership to build a care home in Newbury. 15-Sep-2005 Tolent has won a £6m contract from Medical Properties to build a medical centre in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne. 15-Sep-2005 Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust (RLBUHT) is planning to build a £4m extension at the Liverpool dental hospital by 2008, which will create 34 new jobs. 14-Sep-2005 Renfrewshire Council is planning to build a £11m multiple health centre in Renfrew, in order to accommodate three GP practices. 14-Sep-2005 South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust is considering plans to close St Luke's Hospital in Crosland Moor over the next five years, in order to transfer mental health services to new premises. 12-Sep-2005 Tendring Primary Care Trust is planning to build a £10m medical centre in Clacton, including GP services, a pharmacy, diagnostic and rehabilitation facilities. 12-Sep-2005 Kent County Council has awarded a £8m contract to Wates to build two nursing homes in Folkestone. 08-Sep-2005 Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is to shed up to 80 management and administration jobs at Stepping Hill Hospital by March 2006. 06-Sep-2005 Tees & North East Yorkshire NHS Trust is to invest almost £80m improving mental health and learning disability facilities across Teesside. 05-Sep-2005 Personal Screening is to raise £1m in a flotation on Aim to fund the expansion of its medical self-testing business. 05-Sep-2005 Mersey Regional Ambulance Service is considering a number of potential sites for a new headquarters and control room for 80 staff. 02-Sep-2005 University Hospital of North Staffordshire is considering plans to shed about 100 management and administration jobs. 02-Sep-2005 Peterborough & Stamford NHS Foundation Trust is to shed up to 70 nursing, healthcare assistant and administrative support jobs, as a number of hospital wards are being amalgamated. 25-Aug-2005 Astron Clinica of Cambridge has secured a multi-million pound investment from Kuwait Finance House to fund the expansion of its skin-imaging technology business. 24-Aug-2005 North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust is to close the Clydesdale mental health resource centre in Penkhull, Staffordshire, and the staff will transfer to other sites. 23-Aug-2005 Smith & Nephew and Beiersdorf of Germany are looking to sell their BSN Medical joint venture, which supplies various bandages and wound dressings and has an annual turnover of £342m. 22-Aug-2005 The Scottish Executive is to invest £30m in the development of ten new dental centres across Scotland, and will also provide more training facilities for dental students. 18-Aug-2005 The Scottish Executive is to invest a further £65m in improvements to health centres across Scotland over the next two years. 17-Aug-2005 Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust is to spend £3m upgrading nine health centres across Teesside over the next three years. 16-Aug-2005 Synidor of Caerphilly is looking to raise £1m to fund the development of manufacturing facilities for a new device to monitor pressure ulcers in hospitals. 15-Aug-2005 Scarborough Borough Council is considering plans for the development of a £7m health facility at the former St Mary's Hospital site, including doctors' surgery, pharmacy and a number of hospital departments. 15-Aug-2005 Mersey Care NHS Trust is to relocate its headquarters from central Liverpool to Princes Dock next month. 11-Aug-2005 Mansell has won a £11m contract from Healthcare Capital Projects to upgrade radiotherapy facilities at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Surrey. 21-Jul-2005 Central Suffolk PCT is planning to close Hartismere Hospital in Eye next March, in order to locate "care in the community" services on the site of the Gilchrist maternity unit. 21-Jul-2005 Warwickshire County Council and other local councils are working on proposals for the development of a £200m health technology business park next to Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry, which could lead to the creation of 5,000 jobs. 19-Jul-2005 National Blood Centre is setting up a new tissue research centre in Speke over the next few months, with the creation of up to 50 jobs. 19-Jul-2005 Mimosa Healthcare has secured a £15m capital injection from Hotbed private investor network and HSBC to fund the expansion of its specialist care business. 15-Jul-2005 Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust is considering plans to close the Goscote rehabilitation hospital in Walsall. 15-Jul-2005 North Cornwall District Council is to consider plans for the transformation of the Hustyns hotel complex near Wadebridge into a medical centre, with the creation of up to 150 professional, technical and ancillary jobs. 15-Jul-2005 Sunrise Senior Living has awarded a £12m contract to Wates to build a nursing home in Mobberley, Cheshire. 07-Jul-2005 Pennine Care NHS Trust is to set up a 22,000 sq ft office at the St Petersfield regeneration scheme in Ashton-under-Lyne. 04-Jul-2005 Deloitte & Touche has been appointed to handle the auction of The Hesley Group, the owner of ten residential schools for children with learning difficulties. 04-Jul-2005 Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust is to close the Embleton Day mental health day-care facility at Buckingham Hospital by the end of the year. 01-Jul-2005 Bristol City Council has approved plans for the £200m redevelopment of Hengrove Park, including a new hospital, homes, a swimming pool, shops, offices and a public park. 01-Jul-2005 The Scottish Executive is to relocate about 250 staff working for NHS Health Scotland, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and NHS Education Scotland from Edinburgh to Glasgow by May 2007. 29-Jun-2005 West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds is to shed about 220 jobs and close two surgical theatres, while Suffolk West Primary Care Trust has confirmed plans to close the Walnuttree Hospital. 28-Jun-2005 Swansea NHS Trust is said to be planning to close Fairwood Hospital in Gower, while three wards at Singleton and Morriston hospitals are also expected to close. 28-Jun-2005 Moray Council is to consider plans for the development of a £4.5m medical centre in Lossiemouth by 2007, in order to serve both the civilian and RAF communities. 27-Jun-2005 Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust is to set up a £65m oncology and haematology unit at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham by 2008. 27-Jun-2005 System C Healthcare, the provider of IT systems to the healthcare sector with 200 staff, has raised £8.5m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its business. 24-Jun-2005 Lorne Stewart has won a £25m estate management contract for the Royal Liverpool hospital. 23-Jun-2005 Cygnet Health Care has secured planning permission from Calderdale Council to transform a former care home in Rastrick into a mental hospital with 25 beds. 10-Jun-2005 Freeway Healthcare, the supplier of patient transfer hoists, is creating 71 jobs at a new headquarters at the St Asaph Business Park in Denbighshire. 09-Jun-2005 Southern Norfolk PCT has announced plans to build a £4.5m one-stop health centre in Thetford by 2007, to replace Thetford Cottage Hospital. 09-Jun-2005 Dorset County Council has awarded a £14m contract to Rok to build a nursing home in Christchurch. 09-Jun-2005 Lifeways Community Care has secured an undisclosed investment from Nomura International to fund the development of its nationwide network of 16 regional community care offices. 08-Jun-2005 Darlington Borough Council has approved plans for the £4m expansion of the Middleton Hall care home. 08-Jun-2005 North East Wales NHS Trust is drawing up plans to build a new £15m mental health unit at Wrexham Maelor Hospital. 08-Jun-2005 Ultrasis has raised £0.7m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its online healthcare business. 06-Jun-2005 Balfour Beatty has won a £5.4m contract from Hampshire County Council to build a nursing home in Emsworth. 02-Jun-2005 Runwood Homes of Essex is looking to sell 26 residential care homes for about £70m. 01-Jun-2005 NHS Tayside has secured a £15m Scottish Executive grant to develop Stracathro Hospital in Angus as a regional centre for diagnosis and treatment, and the private sector will be used to exploit underused operating theatres. 31-May-2005 Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust has spun out a new Bridgend-based company called ZooBiotic, which has secured £1.8m to fund the commercial development of sterile maggot wound-cleansing technology. 27-May-2005 Essex County Council has awarded a £1m contract to Primary Care UK of Clacton to provide services to the disabled, which could lead to the creation of 70 new jobs. 27-May-2005 Devon Partnership Trust has announced plans to move the Riverside and Haytor mental health units to a new part of the Torbay Hospital site by autumn 2007, at a cost of £12m. 26-May-2005 NHS Greater Glasgow has announced plans to set up a dedicated £8m leukaemia research centre on the same site as the new £100m Beatson Oncology Centre at Gartnavel hospital. 24-May-2005 NHS Argyll & Clyde, the health board with debts of up to £100m, is to be scrapped and its responsibilities divided between NHS Greater Glasgow and NHS Highlands. 23-May-2005 Down Lisburn Trust has announced plans to rebuild the Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn over the next five years, as part of a £62m project. 20-May-2005 HG Construction has won a £7.5m contract from Grosvenor House Group to build a mental health unit at Stonehouse Hospital in Dartford. 19-May-2005 Chromogenex is to raise £2m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its medical lasers business. 16-May-2005 Armstrong Healthcare has raised £1m through the Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network to fund the commercial development of its image-guided surgical robot. 13-May-2005 Affinity Healthcare is seeking permission to build a new 72-bed psychiatric unit on the site of the Middleton St George Hospital in Darlington. 13-May-2005 The Department of Health is to proceed with plans for the development of more privately-operated surgical centres, and a £500m contract to treat 250,000 patients a year is due to be announced. 12-May-2005 Ultralase, the chain of 12 laser eye surgeries, has been put up for sale with an estimated valuation of £35m. 09-May-2005 ANS, the chain of 50 nursing and psychiatric care homes, is conducting a strategic review that could lead to the business being put up for sale for about £300m. 09-May-2005 Brunel-Buckingham Medical School is planning to set up the UK's first independent medical school in Buckinghamshire by 2008, and £10m of private investment is being sought. 06-May-2005 Cheshire County Council is to consider plans from Wordsworth Homes to build a £20m care complex for the elderly in Northwich, with the creation of up to 80 jobs. 06-May-2005 Dudley South Primary Care Trust is to merge with Dudley Beacon and Castle PCT, creating a combined health trust with 2,000 staff. 02-May-2005 Doughty Hanson is planning to auction the Priory chain of 40 rehabilitation centres for up to £700m. 02-May-2005 Chancellor Care, the Norwich-based chain of psychiatric hospitals, is expected to be acquired by Lloyds TSB's venture capital arm for up to £30m. 02-May-2005 Interserve has won a £430m contract to refurbish hospitals for Newcastle NHS Trust, in partnership with Equion and Commonwealth Bank of Australia. 02-May-2005 South Wiltshire Primary Care Trust is planning to close the £2m Grovely rehabilitation unit at Fountain Way hospital in Salisbury and link more mental health services with GP practices. 21-Apr-2005 Carlisle City Council is considering plans from Northcare Developments to build a private clinic in the grounds of the Cumberland Infirmary. 21-Apr-2005 The Scottish Executive is said to be planning to shed more than 1,200 jobs, as part of a major cost-cutting exercise in NHS support services, tourism and other areas. 15-Apr-2005 Surrey & Sussex NHS Trust has awarded a £14m contract to Taylor Woodrow to refurbish Crawley Hospital. 14-Apr-2005 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is planning to build a £26m five-storey heart centre at the John Radcliffe Hospital. 11-Apr-2005 Dundee City Council is considering plans from Dundee University and NHS Tayside for the development of a £12m clinical research centre at Ninewells Hospital. 07-Apr-2005 Derby City Council has secured £5m to fund the development of eight new children's centres, while Derbyshire County Council is to establish a further 29. 07-Apr-2005 North East Wales NHS Trust is considering plans to build a new £9m pharmacy at Wrexham Maelor Hospital. 06-Apr-2005 Advantage West Midlands has submitted outline plans to Oswestry Borough Council to build a "health village", including GP, pharmacy and dentistry services, as part of the £15m redevelopment of the Former Railway Land site. 05-Apr-2005 New Horizons is looking to expand its childcare operations in the north-east with the acquisition of up to 15 properties across Tyneside, Durham and Northumberland and the creation of 200 jobs. 04-Apr-2005 Kids Unlimited is planning to expand its chain of 46 day-care nurseries by opening six new sites a year. 04-Apr-2005 Huntingdonshire Primary Care Trust is to build a new £7m children's unit at Hinchingbrooke Hospital by 2007. 01-Apr-2005 HgCapital is to invest about £20m in the development of the Castlebeck Care chain of ten acute hospitals in the North of England and Scotland, which could lead to the business being sold within 12 months. 31-Mar-2005 South Norfolk Housing Partnership is to shed 17 jobs at the South Norfolk Contact Care Centre in Long Stratton, which provides an emergency service for elderly and other vulnerable people. 30-Mar-2005 Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare Trust and Mid-Hampshire Primary Care Trust are planning to shed about 150 jobs and close a number of wards, in order to save £14m by April 2006. 30-Mar-2005 North Norfolk Primary Care Trust is to proceed with plans to build a new £25m hospital in Cromer, but a suitable site has not yet been selected. 29-Mar-2005 Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority has announced plans to build a £14m breast cancer prevention centre at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester by 2007. 23-Mar-2005 Swansea NHS Trust is considering the former Velindre steelworks site as a potential location for a new hospital to replace the Morriston and Singleton hospitals, but any development would be years away. 22-Mar-2005 The Mental Welfare Commission is to relocate its headquarters and up to 76 staff from Edinburgh to Falkirk in October. 22-Mar-2005 Serco and Equion have been selected as preferred bidder by the University of Leicester NHS Trust for the £1.2bn refurbishment and maintenance of three Leicester hospitals. 21-Mar-2005 Lichfield District Council is considering plans from South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust to build a new £17m hospital at the St Michael's Hospital site off Trent Valley Road. 21-Mar-2005 Scottish Executive is to provide an extra £150m to improve dental services in Scotland over the next three years, including funding for more dentists and better premises and equipment. 21-Mar-2005 Sperrin Lakeland Health Trust Board is planning to build a £175m hospital in Enniskillen and a smaller £90m local hospital in Omagh, with construction work starting in 2010. 16-Mar-2005 Kennet & North Wiltshire Primary Care Trust has announced plans for a £6m hospital project in Malmesbury, which will provide a range of health services after completion in 2007. 16-Mar-2005 Adur Arun & Worthing Primary Care Trust is planning to build a £7m community hospital and social care centre in Littlehampton. 11-Mar-2005 Miller Construction has won a £20m contract from Wilky Group to build a four-storey primary healthcare centre in Aldershot. 09-Mar-2005 Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking planning permission to build new mental health facilities at the Great Western Hospital, as part of a £9m investment in Swindon. 07-Mar-2005 Barchester has raised £170m in a rights issue to fund acquisitions for its nursing homes business. 07-Mar-2005 Balfour Beatty has won a £14m contract from the City Mental Health NHS Trust for development work at the East Ham Memorial Hospital. 03-Mar-2005 University of Manchester is linking up with the Christie Hospital and the Paterson Institute to set up the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, in order to speed up the development of cancer detection methods and treatments. 03-Mar-2005 Tissue Science Laboratories is raising £7.5m in a share placing to fund the development of human tissue replacement products. 28-Feb-2005 Suffolk West Primary Care Trust has unveiled revised plans for the development of a new hospital in Sudbury, including a £5.4m intermediate care centre. 24-Feb-2005 South London & Maudsley NHS Trust has awarded a £30m contract to Interserve to build a secure mental health unit in Beckenham. 24-Feb-2005 South Holland District Council is considering plans for the development of a multi-million pound community hospital and ambulance station in Pinchbeck by 2008. 23-Feb-2005 Test Valley Borough Council is to consider plans from Covenant Healthcare for the development of a secure unit for the mentally ill in Weyhill. 23-Feb-2005 The Department of Health is planning to spend £1bn on private sector diagnostic treatment over the next five years, with bids being invited to carry out blood tests, endoscopies, ultrasounds and MRI scans. 21-Feb-2005 Tendring District Council is to consider plans from Roverstar for the development of a £10m retirement village and nursing home at Silverwoods in Thorrington, with the creation of 100 jobs. 18-Feb-2005 Graphite Capital is looking to sell the Ridgmont chain of 29 care homes for about £100m. 16-Feb-2005 NHS Lothian has confirmed plans for a £180m investment programme, including the development of a resource centre for mental health patients at the Haddington Hospital. 11-Feb-2005 Willmott Dixon has won a £11m contract from Cygnet Health Care to build a nursing home in Stevenage. 10-Feb-2005 Devon Partnership Trust is planning to build a £3.6m mental health unit at the North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple. 07-Feb-2005 Cherwell Vale Primary Care Trust is planning to build a new hospital in Brackley, including a care home and a day hospital with clinical examination areas. 04-Feb-2005 Care Perspectives has submitted revised plans for the £4m expansion of the medium-secure Burston House Hospital near Diss. 04-Feb-2005 Bupa is considering plans to sell a package of 15 hospitals for £100m, and discussions are taking place with two interested parties. 03-Feb-2005 Greater Glasgow NHS Board is considering plans to create one of the country's largest heart and lung units at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank. 02-Feb-2005 BC Partners is looking to sell the Partnerships in Care chain of mental hospitals for more than £500m. 31-Jan-2005 Bristol South & West Primary Care Trust and Bristol North PCT are to build health centres in Whitchurch and Shirehampton, at a total cost of £12m. 28-Jan-2005 Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust has selected Sutton Hospital as the site for the development of a £228m critical care centre. 27-Jan-2005 BetterCare, the chain of 28 care homes, is being prepared for sale by 3i with an estimated value of £100m. 24-Jan-2005 Hyndburn Borough Council has approved plans from Hyndburn & Ribble Valley Primary Care Trust to build a health centre on the site of Broughton Crangrove Mill, which will create 134 jobs. 20-Jan-2005 Sandwell Council is planning to build a £10m care unit on the site of the Kingsmeadow centre in Queensway, Oldbury, by 2007. 20-Jan-2005 Teleflex Medical is to close its Rusch medical equipment manufacturing operation in Lurgan, Armagh, with the loss of 270 jobs. 19-Jan-2005 Brunel University is to establish an independent private medical school called the Hunter School of Medicine next year. 18-Jan-2005 Hallmark Healthcare is planning to spend £25m setting up five new care homes in Wales, Norfolk and the Midlands this year, with the creation of about 600 jobs. 17-Jan-2005 Transform Medical, the cosmetic surgery chain, has been put up for sale as part of the £200m auction of parent company Covenant Healthcare. 13-Jan-2005 Oxford University has secured a £1.1m grant from the Templeton Foundation to set up a centre to study the science of the mind. 12-Jan-2005 Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to invest £4m in building work and service improvements at the Peterborough District, Edith Cavell and Stamford hospitals. 12-Jan-2005 BMI Healthcare is setting up a public health division to bid for contracts to treat NHS patients at its 47 acute hospitals. 10-Jan-2005 Capio Healthcare UK is planning to open an independent health centre for NHS patients in Milton Keynes later this year, and is seeking a suitable site. 07-Jan-2005 Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, the operator of Birmingham's City Hospital, is to shed up to 200 jobs in order to reduce debt. 06-Jan-2005 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