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Pendine Park is planning to set up a £4m dementia care centre at the former Bryn Seiont community hospital site in Caernarfon, with the creation of up to 100 jobs. 31-Dec-2009 Stockport Council has approved plans to build a £30m NHS health centre on the site of St Thomas' Hospital in Shaw Heath. 31-Dec-2009 Basildon Council has approved plans from Hallmark Healthcare to build a £7m 70-bed care home in Billericay by spring 2011, with the creation of 70 jobs. 21-Dec-2009 NHS Cambridgeshire has secured £9m of funding for the development of a 60-bed extra care facility at Doddington Hospital by the end of 2011. 16-Dec-2009 Corridor Manchester is seeking a developer to transform the former Royal Eye Hospital in Manchester into a base for medical technology companies by 2012, at a cost of up to £25m. 14-Dec-2009 Four Seasons has announced a debt restructuring deal that will secure the future of 20,000 jobs at its chain of 330 nursing homes. 09-Dec-2009 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to invest £3m in the expansion of its baby care facilities at Royal Preston Hospital in 2010. 09-Dec-2009 Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust is planning to build a £5m health centre on Wednesfield Road by 2012. 08-Dec-2009 Worcester City Council has approved plans from Projects 2000 for the development of a £6.7m GP surgery in Northwick Road. 08-Dec-2009 IDS, the Tyneside-based supplier of medical testing equipment, is looking to create a further 50 jobs worldwide next year. 02-Dec-2009 NHS Hull is planning to invest £1m in the development of health centres at the city's two rugby league clubs. 30-Nov-2009 Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust is planning to invest £20m in the expansion of Colchester General Hospital, including a new two-storey children's ward and clinic. 30-Nov-2009 The Department of Health is planning to invest £130m in telecare and home adaptations, in order to help 130,000 people needing home care. 24-Nov-2009 Gibraltar Care Village is creating 30 jobs at its new £10m nursing home and retirement village in Monmouth. 23-Nov-2009 Caldew Hospital has submitted plans to build a new £7m private hospital in Dalston Road, Carlisle, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 19-Nov-2009 Alliance Surgical, the medical group, is to set up a 28,000 sq ft office at Calthorpe House in Edgbaston, Birmingham. 16-Nov-2009 LNT Group has secured £67m to fund the expansion of its chain of two Ideal care homes with up to nine new sites in the North of England and the Midlands over the next year. 16-Nov-2009 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is to shed a further 400 jobs at hospitals in Leeds over the next five months. 16-Nov-2009 DePuy has confirmed plans to stop production at its orthopaedic devices factory in Leeds, with the loss of up to 280 jobs. 16-Nov-2009 Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester is planning to shed up to 200 jobs over the next year. 09-Nov-2009 PDSA is to open a new £1.6m PetAid animal hospital in Sunderland in autumn 2010. 05-Nov-2009 Tiger Developments has won permission to build a 58-bed care home in Windsor for its Shelbourne Senior Living division by 2012, and hopes to build a chain of up to 40 units. 03-Nov-2009 Sandvik Medical Solutions is to shed 81 jobs at its medical instruments business in Sheffield. 03-Nov-2009 Lein Applied Diagnostics of Reading has secured a £1m venture capital investment from MTI Partners to fund the commercial development of a new technique to measure blood glucose levels. 02-Nov-2009 Devon County Council is planning to cut the number of staff in its 24 residential care homes by up to 130. 02-Nov-2009 Angels Care Services is looking to expand its 70-strong workforce with 30 new jobs in Newport. 02-Nov-2009 BAM Construct has won a £50m contract to build a 120-bed mental health facility in Shelton for South Staffs & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. 26-Oct-2009 B Braun Medical is to close its surgical instruments factory at Allen Street in Sheffield by the end of next year, with the loss of 75 jobs. 26-Oct-2009 Shropshire Council is to consider plans from Matrix Medical for the development of a £13m primary care surgery in Shrewsbury, with the creation of up to 70 jobs. 22-Oct-2009 The University of Edinburgh is to set up a childhood epilepsy research centre by September 2010, in partnership with the Muir Maxwell Trust. 20-Oct-2009 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is planning to set up a £1.7m children's heart centre at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester over the next three years. 20-Oct-2009 The Royal Bolton Hospital is to create 400 new jobs by 2011 with the transfer of inpatient maternity services from Bury and Salford. 13-Oct-2009 Integrated Support is looking to recruit 70 additional staff for its specialist care services business in the North East over the next three months. 13-Oct-2009 North-West Independent Hospital is to shed 50 jobs at its private hospital in County Londonderry, following a fall in referrals from the NHS. 12-Oct-2009 Executive Care Group of Gateshead is to open seven new care homes in Dundee, Newmarket, Poole, Redcar, South Shields, Stocksfield and Wisbech over the next year, with the creation of 300 jobs. 12-Oct-2009 Carewatch is looking to recruit 37 additional staff for its care services business in Leicester. 05-Oct-2009 NHS Somerset has secured funding for a new £17m hospital to be built in South Petherton by 2011. 29-Sep-2009 Arthrex is setting up a UK headquarters for its sports medicine business at Smithy Wood in Sheffield. 28-Sep-2009 Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has unveiled plans to invest £300m in the expansion of its site and new medical research facilities over the next 20 years, creating up to 8,000 new jobs. 28-Sep-2009 Merthyr Tydfil Council is to consider plans from Care 4U to build three residential care homes near Castle Park, with the creation of 30 jobs. 24-Sep-2009 West London Mental Health Trust is to submit plans for the £280m redevelopment of Broadmoor psychiatric hospital in Berkshire. 23-Sep-2009 NHS Camden is considering plans to occupy more than 100,000 sq ft of space at Stephenson House on Hampstead Road. 21-Sep-2009 Guys & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is to set up a 58,000 sq ft office at 75 York Road in Waterloo, London. 21-Sep-2009 Heatherwood & Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning to shed up to 157 jobs at hospitals in Ascot and Slough. 21-Sep-2009 Plymouth City Council has approved outline plans from ReSound Health for the development of a £5m NHS clinic and health centre in Plympton. 21-Sep-2009 Wirral Primary Care Trust has won approval to build a new GP "super-surgery" at Arrowe Park. 15-Sep-2009 NHS Lanarkshire has unveiled plans to build a new 130-bed mental health campus at Wishaw General or Monklands Hospital. 15-Sep-2009 Lighthouse Project has closed its Merseyside-based drugs charity, which could lead to the loss of up to 250 jobs. 10-Sep-2009 Complete Group is looking to expand its care services business into Merseyside, with the creation of 25 jobs. 10-Sep-2009 The Bristol Haematology & Oncology Centre (BHOC) is planning a £2.4m refurbishment project, including a new reception area and outpatients department. 09-Sep-2009 Bausch & Lomb is to close its disposable contact lenses factory in Livingston over the next year, with the loss of about 500 jobs, in order to transfer production to Ireland and the US. 07-Sep-2009 Bury Council is to consider plans from the Alpha Hospital to build two new psychiatric units providing more than 80 beds, which could create 225 jobs. 07-Sep-2009 NHS North Lincolnshire has unveiled plans to build a new £15m health centre in Scunthorpe by autumn 2011. 07-Sep-2009 Barnsley Hospital is planning a £200m rebuilding project by 2025. 07-Sep-2009 Ideal Care Homes is recruiting 60 staff for a new 78-bed care home in Harehill, Leeds. 07-Sep-2009 Molecular Vision of London has raised a further £2m to fund the commercial development of disposable devices for medical testing. 02-Sep-2009 Aircraft Medical is to invest a further £20m in the expansion of its Edinburgh-based medical devices business over the next five years, including sales, marketing, research and new jobs. 02-Sep-2009 Ideal Care Homes is creating 50 jobs at a new 60-bed care home due to open in Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent, in December. 02-Sep-2009 The University Hospital of North Staffordshire Trust has secured £3.5m from the West Midlands North Comprehensive Clinical Research Network to fund research at its hospital in Stoke-on-Trent over the next three years. 01-Sep-2009 NHS Professionals is to close a further two swine flu call centres in Farnborough and Watford. 27-Aug-2009 North West Strategic Health Authority is to relocate up to 500 Manchester-based staff to a 52,000 sq ft office at Three Piccadilly Place. 26-Aug-2009 NHS Blood & Transplant has confirmed plans to shed 76 jobs at its blood processing centre in Leeds in 2010, in order to transfer the work to Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. 25-Aug-2009 Conduit has closed its swine flu call centre in Plymouth, with the loss of about 90 temporary jobs. 24-Aug-2009 Shropshire Council is to consider plans from Matrix Medical to build a new £13m surgery in Shrewsbury by 2011, including a base for Shropshire County Primary Care Trust. 24-Aug-2009 Ladhar Group has secured a £10m funding package to expand its chain of care homes into Yorkshire, with the creation of more than 100 jobs by the end of the year. 19-Aug-2009 Villafont and Southern Care Group are to build a £3.8m care home in Urmston by next year, with the creation of 75 jobs. 17-Aug-2009 Southern Health & Social Care Trust is planning to shed 28 of the 129 jobs at its residential care homes in Northern Ireland. 17-Aug-2009 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is considering plans to build a new £25m premature babies unit in Oxford. 04-Aug-2009 Home Instead is looking to create up to 100 jobs at its new home care operation in Swansea over the next year. 04-Aug-2009 NHS Coventry has won planning permission to build a new £20m health centre at Hillfields by 2011. 04-Aug-2009 David Roberts Physiotherapy of Lancashire has secured funding to open at least three new private clinics over the next 18 months. 04-Aug-2009 West Midlands Ambulance Trust is looking to recruit about 60 extra ambulance drivers, in order to improve its non-emergency transport service in North Staffordshire. 04-Aug-2009 Aberdeenshire Council has approved plans from Sanspeur for the development of a sheltered housing complex in Fraserburgh, which could create up to 100 care jobs. 23-Jul-2009 NHS South West has submitted plans to Bristol City Council for the development of a new £430m "super hospital" by 2013, in order to combine services from Southmead and Frenchay hospitals. 23-Jul-2009 NHS Suffolk is to consider proposals to set up a £2.5m heart laboratory at Ipswich Hospital over the next year. 22-Jul-2009 NHS Greater Glasgow is to invest £6m in two new centralised kitchens at the Royal Alexandra and Inverclyde Royal hospitals, in order to supply food to hospitals across the area. 20-Jul-2009 Swansea Council has approved plans from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust to invest £80m in the redevelopment of the Cefn Coed mental hospital over the next five years. 20-Jul-2009 Norfolk & Waveney Mental Health Foundation Trust is looking to recruit 40 additional staff for both clinical and non-clinical jobs. 16-Jul-2009 NHS Doncaster has unveiled plans to build a £8m five-storey health centre at the former SR Gent factory by 2011. 16-Jul-2009 NHS Coventry is to invest £6m in improvements to medical care in the community over the next five years, creating 200 new healthcare jobs. 14-Jul-2009 Colchester General Hospital is planning to recruit 100 extra staff this year, and is also starting work on the development of a new £13m ward block. 13-Jul-2009 University Hospital Aintree has unveiled plans for a £60m overhaul of wards at its Fazakerley site on Merseyside. 09-Jul-2009 Morgan Ashurst has won a £100m contract to build new mental health care facilities at Murray Royal hospital in Perth and Stracathro hospital in Angus. 08-Jul-2009 Kettering General Hospital has won permission from East Northamptonshire Council to build a new outpatients clinic to replace the Rushden Memorial Clinic in Irthlingborough. 06-Jul-2009 Priory Group is planning to invest £35m in the expansion of its mental health services across Northern Ireland over the next three years, with the creation of more than 700 jobs. 02-Jul-2009 South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust has unveiled plans for the £8m revamp of accident and emergency services at South Tyneside District Hospital in South Shields. 02-Jul-2009 Interior Services Group has won a £6.2m contract to build a motor neurone disease research centre at the University of Sheffield by summer 2010. 01-Jul-2009 Leeds City Council has approved plans from Community Ventures Leeds for the £20m development of two new health and council service centres in Harehills and Chapeltown by 2010. 29-Jun-2009 Cambridge University is seeking funding to build a new £55m sports and swimming centre at its West Cambridge site. 29-Jun-2009 North Lanarkshire Council has approved plans from AWG Property and WG Mitchell to build an 80,000 sq ft health centre and 27,000 sq ft of office and retail space in Airdrie by 2011. 25-Jun-2009 Birmingham City Council is to replace its remaining homes for elderly people with sheltered accommodation this summer, with the loss of 180 jobs. 24-Jun-2009 Vivacta has raised £2.8m to fund the commercial development of its blood testing technology, which could lead to an increase in its 33-strong workforce in Kent. 24-Jun-2009 General Medical Council is to take a further 10,000 sq ft of office space at 3 Hardman Street in the Spinningfields district of Manchester. 23-Jun-2009 Black Swan International has acquired the Westfield House dementia care home in Dereham, and now employs more than 250 staff at ten homes. 23-Jun-2009 NHS North West is said to be in negotiations to set up a 50,000 sq ft office at Piccadilly Place in Manchester, in order to relocate from Gateway House. 22-Jun-2009 Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has acquired a three-acre site with 44,000 sq ft of buildings near Rotherham General Hospital, in order to house most of its non-clinical facilities. 17-Jun-2009 Hull City Council has approved plans from NHS Hull and the Sewell Group to build a £15m health and wellbeing centre on Story Street by 2011. 15-Jun-2009 UK Specialist Hospitals is to recruit up to 170 staff for a new private treatment centre due to open in Emersons Green, Bristol, in November, and other sites will open in Devizes and Cirencester. 11-Jun-2009 Nottingham City Council is to consider plans from Nottingham Regeneration for the development of a £100m MediPark close to the Queen's Medical Centre. 10-Jun-2009 Serco has won a £140m contract to provide catering, cleaning and portering services to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. 08-Jun-2009 Bluebird Care is planning to create a further 40 jobs at its new care-in-the-home office in Fareham over the coming months. 03-Jun-2009 Lloydspharmacy is to introduce its online doctor service to about 300 pharmacy stores this year, following a successful trial in six outlets. 01-Jun-2009 Patterson Medical is investing £2m in the expansion of its office and warehouse at Sutton-in-Ashfield, with the creation of 50 jobs, but 80 jobs will be lost through the closure of its Mobilis Healthcare operation in Oldham. 01-Jun-2009 Mersey Care NHS Trust has unveiled plans to invest £130m in the development of five mental health centres across Liverpool and Sefton. 28-May-2009 Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology in Wirral is bidding to become the National Centre for Proton Therapy, which could lead to a £40m investment over the next three years. 28-May-2009 James Leckey Design is looking to create up to 15 new jobs at its healthcare products manufacturing business in Dunmurry this year. 27-May-2009 Lir-Med is to open a new medical equipment factory on the Carn Industrial Estate in Craigavon next month, which will create up to 50 jobs over the next two years. 27-May-2009 Ashford Borough Council has approved plans from private healthcare firm AXA PPP to build a 42,000 sq ft call centre at Repton Park, with the creation of more than 600 jobs. 26-May-2009 NHS Stoke-on-Trent has unveiled plans to build a new £14m health centre in Cobridge by 2011, in order to take services away from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. 21-May-2009 Bracknell Forest Council and NHS Berkshire East have selected a site in Market Street for Ashley House to build a new Healthspace health centre by 2011, as part of the £750m regeneration of Bracknell town centre. 21-May-2009 Prime Life is to create 40 jobs at a new care home due to open at South Wigston in Leicestershire next year, and a further 60 jobs will be created at a new home in Lincolnshire. 19-May-2009 Four Winds Care Homes has won planning permission to build a £2.5m care home in Hartlepool by 2012, and is also planning a £1.5m home in Seaton Carew. 18-May-2009 The Injury Care Clinics (TICCS) has secured funding from the Co-operative Bank to expand its Fareham-based medical treatment business, with the creation of more than 30 jobs. 18-May-2009 Coverage Care has agreed terms with Shropshire Council to invest £3m in the expansion of the Innage Grange care home in Bridgnorth, with the creation of 30 jobs. 11-May-2009 Adecco is recruiting up to 500 temporary staff for the unnamed operator of a Swansea call centre to deal with calls from the public about swine flu. 07-May-2009 UK Haptics is looking to raise £1m to set up a new headquarters in Newcastle for its NHS training business, with the creation of 40 jobs. 07-May-2009 Prestige Medical is to relocate its Blackburn-based medical equipment business and up to 60 staff to the Shadsworth Business Park over the next few weeks. 06-May-2009 Prime Life has unveiled proposals to build a £15m care village in King's Lynn, which could create up to 100 jobs. 04-May-2009 Monica Healthcare has secured £1m of venture capital funding to expand its Nottingham-based medical equipment business into the US, and the 10-strong workforce is to double over the next year. 04-May-2009 Circle is looking to recruit 150 staff for a new private hospital due to open at Peasedown St John in Bath this autumn. 04-May-2009 The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust is to create up to 100 jobs at a new £4m 25-bed hospital due to open at Springburn in Glasgow in September. 30-Apr-2009 Rosewood Care, a new company established by the owner of Bensham Wholefoods, is to create up to 80 jobs at a new £5m care home due to open in Gateshead in January 2010. 28-Apr-2009 Gainford Care Homes is planning to expand its chain of 11 nursing and residential homes across the North East and create 300 new jobs over the next two years. 23-Apr-2009 Czajka Care Group is planning to double the 150-strong workforce at its Shipley-based home care business over the next few months, having tendered for contracts in North Yorkshire and Kirklees. 23-Apr-2009 Carillion has secured a £153m contract to build and support a new surgery centre at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage by spring 2011. 22-Apr-2009 The Scottish Government is to award £5.4m to health boards across Scotland to recruit 600 additional cleaning staff for hospitals. 20-Apr-2009 Ashley House is planning to raise £2.2m in a share placing to fund the expansion of its primary care infrastructure business. 16-Apr-2009 Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust has unveiled plans to invest £30m reopening buildings at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, including new health clinics, surgeries and outpatient facilities. 16-Apr-2009 The Northwest Regional Development Agency has announced a £5m investment in a health laboratory to analyse patient data for Salford Primary Care Trust and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. 15-Apr-2009 James Hull Associates, the dental chain valued at about £230m, is looking to sell a 30% stake in the business to a private equity firm, in order to expand into continental Europe and the Middle East. 14-Apr-2009 NHS Warwickshire has confirmed plans to build a new £6.8m health centre to replace Alcester Community Hospital by 2011. 13-Apr-2009 Peri-dent is to shed 30 jobs at its dental products manufacturing business in Tweedbank. 09-Apr-2009 Hadrian Healthcare is to submit plans to build a £3m 73-bed care home in Halifax, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. 07-Apr-2009 Claverton Healthcare is to create more than 100 jobs at two new care complexes at Springfield House and Saltford in Bath. 07-Apr-2009 West Norfolk Council is to consider plans from Morston Assets to build a £10m community medical centre for Southgate Medical Practice in King's Lynn. 06-Apr-2009 Smiths Medical International is setting up a new 24,000 sq ft office for its medical devices business at Eureka Park in Ashford, Kent. 06-Apr-2009 Pennine Healthcare is looking to extend the cleanroom and warehouse facilities at its medical products factory in Derby, which could create a number of new jobs. 02-Apr-2009 United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is to open two new wards at Lincoln County Hospital next year, and 200 new jobs will be created in Lincoln, Boston, Grantham and Louth. 02-Apr-2009 Optical Express is to create 300 new jobs, including 200 at a call centre in Glasgow and 100 through the expansion of its chain of clinics. 02-Apr-2009 Linc-Cymru Housing Association is to start recruiting up to 90 jobs for the new £6.5m Glyn Anwen nursing home due to open in Newport in July. 01-Apr-2009 Leeds City Council is to consider plans from Springfield Healthcare Group to transform Seacroft Grange into an 84-bed care home, with the creation of 100 jobs. 01-Apr-2009 Devon County Council may have to close the Atkinson secure children's home in Exeter with the loss of up to 80 jobs, following the loss of a contract to provide services to the Youth Justice Board. 01-Apr-2009 Ingleby Group is to create 30 jobs at a new £1m care home due to open in Galley Common, Warwickshire, later this year. 31-Mar-2009 Kimal is to create more than 20 jobs at its healthcare production and distribution facilities in Droitwich and Bromsgrove. 31-Mar-2009 Southern Health Trust is planning to close wards at the St Lukes, Longstone and Mullinure hospitals in Armagh, with the loss of up to 200 jobs. 30-Mar-2009 ExtraCare is looking to recruit up to 100 staff for the new Lark Hall retirement village due to open at Clifton in Nottinghamshire this summer. 26-Mar-2009 MESM is in the process of relocating its medical equipment business from Skelmersdale to a new 250,000 sq ft distribution centre operated in partnership with Multipart at Logistics House in Chorley. 25-Mar-2009 The Scottish Ambulance Service has secured a £25m funding package from the Scottish Government to invest in 700 new vehicles over the next three years. 24-Mar-2009 Leeds City Council has received provisional funding from the Department of Health to build a £32m leisure and health centre at Holt Park, including swimming pools, a gym and consulting rooms. 18-Mar-2009 Northamptonshire County Council is to invest £5.8m opening 19 new Sure Start children's centres, including five in Northampton and three in Daventry. 18-Mar-2009 The University of Edinburgh has awarded a £54m contract to Miller Construction to build the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the 100-acre Edinburgh BioQuarter site. 17-Mar-2009 Bupa is to open three new care homes in Malvern, Southampton and Stratford-upon-Avon by the end of the year, with the creation of 800 jobs. 16-Mar-2009 Aberdeen City Council is to consider plans from CLAN for the development of a £3m cancer support centre in Cornhill Road. 12-Mar-2009 Philips Healthcare Informatics is investing £1m in the expansion of its cardiovascular information systems business in Belfast, with the creation of 30 jobs. 10-Mar-2009 NHS Grampian has won permission from Aberdeen City Council to set up a new multi-million-pound emergency care centre at the main Foresterhill site. 05-Mar-2009 Parish & Bell, the Carshalton-based manufacturer of specialist insoles for patients, has gone into voluntary liquidation through Marks Bloom. 05-Mar-2009 IDS is to create about 30 jobs at its medical test kit operations in South Tyneside, Germany and the US, in order to market a new blood testing device. 05-Mar-2009 Independent Living Services of Alloa is taking over the Scottish care-at-home operations of Deveron Care Services of Banff, securing the future of about 40 jobs. 04-Mar-2009 The Skills for Care Agency is looking to recruit up to 250 social care workers in the Bradford area, with recruitment events being held to raise the profile of the sector. 04-Mar-2009 East Cambridgeshire District Council is to consider plans for the transformation of the former Soham Lodge Hotel in Soham into a specialist brain injury unit, which could create up to 150 jobs. 04-Mar-2009 Kingdom Homes is to create 70 jobs at a £5m new care home due to open in Alburne Park, Glenrothes, later this year. 26-Feb-2009 North Wiltshire District Council has approved plans for a new 60-bed care home in Wootton Bassett, which will create up to 85 jobs. 26-Feb-2009 The Northern Ireland Executive is to invest £3.5m in the Health & Social Care Trusts' Gateway and Family Intervention Teams, with the creation of 70 jobs for social workers and child protection staff. 26-Feb-2009 Four Seasons Health Care is to create 70 jobs at a new residential care home due to open in Limavady over the next few weeks, and a further 80 jobs will be created at other homes across Northern Ireland. 25-Feb-2009 CareConcepts is building a new 60-bed care home in Appleton, Cheshire, by March 2010, with the creation of 75 jobs. 24-Feb-2009 Orchard Care Homes is to create up to 60 jobs when a new £2.5m care home opens in Bentilee, Staffordshire, this autumn. 24-Feb-2009 Stirling Council is to close the Wellgreen and Beech residential care homes in Stirling, with the loss of 50 jobs. 24-Feb-2009 Balfour Beatty ProCure21 has won a £9.6m contract to refurbish wards at Bootham Park hospital and other health projects in North Yorkshire. 23-Feb-2009 Rushcliffe Borough Council is to consider plans for the development of a £60m retirement village in the grounds of Stanford Hall in Nottinghamshire. 18-Feb-2009 Always There Homecare is to create more than 100 jobs at its mental health and general care business, which provides services for Leicester City Council. 18-Feb-2009 Vantis Business Recovery Services is seeking a buyer for three Helpcare and Carestream care homes currently in administration, including sites in Normanton, Pontefract and Ryhill in Yorkshire. 17-Feb-2009 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has unveiled plans to invest £200m in new facilities, including a new £75m Specialist Emergency Care Hospital near Cramlington and a £125m upgrade for North Tyneside and Wansbeck general hospitals. 12-Feb-2009 Vision Express is to close the GMC Bateman Laboratories in Guildford with the loss of up to 60 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its site in Nottingham. 12-Feb-2009 Liverpool PCT has unveiled plans for the development of a new £15m hospital at the Sir Alfred Jones Memorial Hospital site in Garston. 11-Feb-2009 Sunderland Royal Hospital is to proceed with plans for a £33m expansion project by February 2010, including three 40-bed wards and a new critical care unit. 10-Feb-2009 Swansea University has unveiled plans for a £21m Centre for NanoHealth, in order to conduct nanotechnology research and create up to 450 new jobs over the next five years. 09-Feb-2009 St Andrew's Healthcare has appointed GB Building Solutions to build a £46m mental health facility in Northampton by 2011. 04-Feb-2009 Medalytix of Daresbury has raised £2m from investors to fund the international marketing of its product to detect diabetic eye disease. 04-Feb-2009 The Department of Health is to invest £150m in the development of a chain of dementia clinics in hospitals, surgeries and high streets across England over the next five years. 03-Feb-2009 Priory Group is to create 60 jobs at a new 76-bed nursing home due to open at Bentilee in Stoke-on-Trent in April. 03-Feb-2009 Serco is to form a £500m joint venture with Guy's and St Thomas's hospitals in London to operate their pathology departments under the name of GSTS Pathology, and similar services will be offered to other NHS trusts. 02-Feb-2009 Sunrise Senior Living is to recruit 80 staff for a new care home due to open in Hale Barns near Manchester in April. 02-Feb-2009 Aberdeenshire Council has unveiled plans for a new £7m care home at St James Place in Inverurie, which would become the blueprint for similar properties across the region. 02-Feb-2009 East Lothian Council is planning to build three new care homes in Musselburgh, Tranent and a third site in the east of the county, in order to provide 180 new beds. 02-Feb-2009 Abbott Diabetes Care is to shed up to 99 jobs at its blood monitoring equipment operation in Witney. 30-Jan-2009 Deveron Care Services is to close its care provision business in Banff with the loss of about 40 jobs, and Aberdeenshire Council will look for other agencies to carry out the work. 29-Jan-2009 NHS North West is to consider plans for the development of a new £15m community hospital in Cockermouth. 29-Jan-2009 Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning to build a £26m transplant unit at the Freeman Hospital. 27-Jan-2009 Cheswold Park Hospital is planning to expand its psychiatric hospital in Doncaster, with the addition of 40 new rooms and the creation of 30 jobs. 27-Jan-2009 Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is to create at least 100 new jobs at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading over the next few months, with vacancies at all levels. 23-Jan-2009 NHS East Riding of Yorkshire is considering plans to build a £17m hospital on a 10-acre site on Swinemoor Lane in Beverley, in order to replace the Beverley Westwood hospital. 23-Jan-2009 South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust is to invest £20m in the expansion of radiotherapy and oncology services at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough by 2011. 23-Jan-2009 Swansea Council is to consider plans from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust to modernise the Cefn Coed psychiatric hospital. 22-Jan-2009 Bupa, the private health insurer, is planning to set up an 80,000 sq ft office at the Pine Trees development in Staines, and will start moving into the first phase later this year. 20-Jan-2009 The Scottish Government has unveiled plans to invest £82m in the development of 13 new dental centres in Ayr, Campbeltown, Cumnock, Glenrothes, Fraserburgh, Huntly, Inverness, Levenmouth, Oban, Thurso, Kirkwall, Stornoway and Tayside. 20-Jan-2009 Leicestershire & Rutland NHS Trust is to close two community hospitals in Market Harborough and Hinckley, in order to transfer services to other sites nearby. 19-Jan-2009 Vita Clinics UK has established a new headquarters in Birmingham to co-ordinate the creation of a network of obesity clinics in Manchester, London and Belfast. 12-Jan-2009 Heatherwood & Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is considering plans to set up a 70,000 sq ft office at Arlington Square in Bracknell. 12-Jan-2009 Torridge District Council is to consider plans from Marchmont for the development of a £15m residential care village in Bideford, with the creation of 150 new jobs. 09-Jan-2009 Bluebird Care is planning to expand its nationwide chain of 34 home care services offices with 11 new sites by April 2009, with the creation of up to 500 jobs. 07-Jan-2009 The Cambridge Private Hospital is facing insolvency proceedings, casting doubt on the future of 30 jobs at its cosmetic surgery centre in Wimpole. 05-Jan-2009 Peninsula Medical School is seeking European funding to set up a £18m health research centre in Truro to study the links between the environment and human health. 05-Jan-2009
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