Healthcare

Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust's main entrance is undergoing refurbishment and, with £175,000 investment from Compass, will house a renovated reception and a new retail area whe

The nomination is initially for one year but with potential for the company to be awarded a three-year extension.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), the new health and social care regulator, carried out a survey by 165 acute and specialist NHS trusts in England.

The report revealed that the regulating of scales was more likely to occur in care homes than hospitals and least likely to happen in mental health units.

The company said in a statement that the extensive re-structuring of its UK arm over the past two years has enabled it to "significantly improve the efficiency of operations".

Convert2Green collects the waste oil from Cornish public sector buildings and processes it into a range of high quality bio-fuel, which is then used to drive a micro generator at the unit. This initia

Lifespan is the catering arm of the Anglia Support Partnership (an NHS support services organisation), with a 50 plus strong team based at the Ida Darwin site in Fulbourn, Cambridge.

Out of the 400 managers and health workers who responded to the survey, nearly a quarter said the Department of Health's nutrition action plan, launched in October 2007, had improved care "not much" o

The caterer has signed an agreement to operate additional retail outlets throughout the teaching hospitals, worth up to £2m per year in revenue.

The new regulations, introduced by Health Ministers, are said to be so restrictive that the Welsh Assembly Government is being urged to rethink its whole approach to vending by a coalition of leading