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Room for improvement in inpatient mental health services
There is wide variation in the quality of acute inpatient mental health services across the country with room for improvement at every NHS trust...
Scotland will legislate to keep out private providers
Ministers in Scotland have confirmed that they will close a legal loop-hole which could allow commercial providers to bid to run GP surgeries.Scotland’s SNP...
Fairfield cuts deficit
Fairfield Independent Hospital, the trading name of charity The Guy Pilkington Memorial Home Limited, lowered its shortfall for the year ended 31 December 2007...
New GP services
Geraldine Smith asked (20 June: column 1234W) whether it is policy that primary care trusts may expand existing doctors' practices in under-doctored areas by...
Independent providers reassured of NHS role
The relationship between the independent sector and the Department of Health has seemed on/off of late, but signs are once again emerging that ministers...
In Brief
UnitedHealth wins FESC dealUnitedHealth UK has been awarded a three-year contract to commission health services for Northampton primary care trust (PCT).
The US based company...
PiC opens medium secure hospital
Partnerships in Care (PiC) has opened a new 64-bed medium secure psychiatric hospital near Arnold in Nottinghamshire. The new Calverton Hill hospital will include...
Better use of technology needed in PMI sector
PMI provider Groupama is calling for the wider adoption of technology within the health insurance sector to help brokers and intermediaries reduce costs, cut...
Hospital provider calls on insurers to fund obesity surgery
Spire Healthcare has written to leading PMI providers urging them to cover treatments such as gastric banding and gastric bypass operations for morbidly obese...
Minister hails GP access figures a ‘success’
The results of the latest GP Patient Access Survey have been hailed by the government as a measure of success for GPs that have...
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