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Ashcroft keeps faith with the cash shell route (68) |
| When Lord Ashcroft snapped up a 32.5 per cent stake last week in The Priory Group, the private hospital chain, some in the City wondered whether it marked the beginning of serious foray into... |
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Street dentists suffer decaying business (67) |
| Sewak Singh, a handsome, young Sikh street dentist, sits on his motorbike, waiting for customers next to the Jama Masjid, the main mosque in Old Delhi. Every few seconds, his almond eyes fla... |
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NHS urged to review hospital tariffs (66) |
| Big changes should be made to the way the National Health Service pays both public and private hospitals for treatments, the Audit Commission said on Wednesday. |
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India's over-weight and over-stressed rich (60) |
| In a bustling working-class neighbourhood in west Delhi, doctors and nurses recently set up a clinic to offer free check-ups. |
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The homeopath to success (60) |
| It was a joy to listen to The Lancet's editor-in-chief Richard Horton during a recent debate on homeopathy on BBC Radio 4. "There are five homeopathic hospitals in the National Health Servic... |
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Private-sector role in super-prisons (59) |
| Contracts for the UK's first "super-prison" are set to be awarded next year, in a move expected to underline Gordon Brown's commitment to the private finance initiative. |
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GHG buys Nuffield hospitals for 140m (58) |
| General Healthcare Group, 50.1 per cent-owned by Netcare, South Africa's largest private hospital group, has expanded in the UK by buying nine hospitals from rival Nuffield for £140m ($283m... |
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CVC seeks to raise $2bn for new fund (55) |
| CVC Capital Partners on Tuesday joined the growing number of private equity firms raising infrastructure funds by announcing plans to raise $2bn for acquisitions of utilities and public serv... |
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Move to take over more failing hospitals (55) |
| Failing hospitals are to be taken over by the government's foundation trusts in large numbers, David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, said on Friday. |
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Japan holds first securitisation of national assets (54) |
| The Japanese government will on Wednesday unveil plans to securitise about Y400bn ($3.74bn) a year in loans to special public institutions over the next few years as part of a scheme to shri... |
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