Pilot study supports EMA in non-hospital settings

Cottage hospitals and polyclinic type settings could offer a safe, high quality service for the termination of pregnancy using drugs, according to results of...

ChilversMcCrea and Boots combine to offer High Street healthcare

ChilversMcCrea Healthcare has entered a partnership with high street chemist Boots to open a new in-store GP surgery in Brighton.The new, purpose-built surgery suite...

NHS needs an economic constitution

Gordon Brown’s vision of a constitution of values for the NHS needs to be accompanied by an economic constitution which will promote a new...

Ramsay to manage Irish hospital

Ramsay Health Care has signed a ten-year management agreement to operate a new private hospital in Ireland when it opens in 2010.The 75-bed Adare...

Cancer specialist warns of healthcare in meltdown

Attitudes must change if healthcare is to avoid an irreversible path towards meltdown, according to a speech delivered by Professor Karol Sikora, medical director...

FTs could be scrapped by new government says chief executive

Foundation trusts might not survive after the next general election, the chief executive of one of the country’s most successful foundation trusts said last...

IHAS slams plans to deregulate cosmetic laser treatments

The Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) has joined cosmetic surgeons and laser safety professional associations in condemning government plans to deregulate the use of...

Hospital payments to be determined by patient satisfaction

The government is yet again planning to draw on patient experience in the private sector in its bid to create a more personalised and...

Darzi pledges to put local NHS at heart of reconfiguration

Proposed changes to local NHS services will have to go through rigorous checks before they can be implemented, health minister Lord Ara Darzi revealed...

BMI opens 24 hour emergency care centre

BMI Healthcare has opened a 24-7 self-pay emergency care centre at its Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow, north-west London.The service is open to adults...