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New rights for cancer patients
Cancer patients who have to wait more than two weeks for a specialist appointment will be given the right to seek treatment from an...
No renewal for Netcare ISTC contract
Independent sector treatment centre (ISTC) providers whose contracts are coming up for renewal are bracing themselves for the fall-out from under-utilisation after it emerged...
Green light for Barking & Dagenham merger
The Competition and Cooperation Panel (CPP) has recommended that the proposed merger of Barking & Dagenham community services and North East London Foundation Trust...
IS feels the Revalidation effect
The introduction of medical revalidation across the UK represents the biggest change to the way doctors are regulated in the history of medical regulation.
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Voluntary sector
Adrian Sanders asked (17 June 2009: Column 381W) what steps the Department of Health (DH) is taking to develop the role of the voluntary...
BMA calls on new health secretary to abandon market based reforms
The chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) has called on the new health secretary to abandon market based reforms of the NHS in...
Consultant chairman issues stark warnings over NHS future
The chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) consultants’ committee has issued a rallying cry to consultants in the face of the economic crisis.
Addressing...
Nuffield opens second joint venture clinic
The Guildford Clinic, a 50:50 joint venture between Nuffield Health and Independent Healthcare Specialists (IHS), which is owned by 25 local consultants, opened last...
Surehaven expands into Scotland
Wales-based mental health provider Surehaven has commenced construction of a new £5m low secure hospital in Scotland.
The16-bed facility will be adjacent to Drumchapel Hospital...
ISTC standards
Stephen O’Brien asked (7 July 2009: Column 698W) which independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) were assessed by the Healthcare Commission as being compliant and...
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