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Branson launches healthcare business

By Alex Barker and Nick Timmins

Published: January 11 2008 02:00 | Last updated: January 11 2008 02:00

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group launched a groundbreaking foray into the NHS primary healthcare market yesterday with a call to family doctors to join them in establishing a network of branded clinics.

Ministers welcomed Virgin Healthcare's decision to open the first of six "one-stop-shop" health centres later this year, which could offer services from homeopathy to therapy alongside typical GP services.

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