Cloud over NHS deal: Correction

Unilabs - In an article on 24 July 1994 about the award of a contract for the management of pathology services at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, to JS Pathology, we indicated that one of the shareholders of the company owning a majority share in JS Pathology's parent company, UniHolding Corporation, was a businessman who had received a suspended prison sentence and who had been fined for a Belgian banking fraud.

We now accept that the individual referred to disposed of his shareholding in UniHolding Corporation in March 1994, prior to UniHolding Corporation acquiring the Unilabs SA Group of Companies. We are happy to make this clear.