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DH steps up telehealth programme
Three primary care trusts (PCTs) are to share a £12m pot from the Department of Health (DH) to step up efforts to explore the...
Mental Illness
David Laws asked the Secretary of State for Health (14 May 2007: Column 600W) what proportion of expenditure on commissioned secondary mental illness services...
Is bed blocking making a comeback?
The number of NHS patients occupying hospital beds despite being fit for discharge has experienced its biggest rise since the start of a long...
NICE vs. High Court showdown this month
Campaigners for the rights of people with Alzheimer’s to receive drugs withdrawn from use last year by the National Institute for Health and Clinical...
Gateshead gets palliative funding
Palliative care services in Gateshead have been awarded a £400,000 grant under the Department of Health’s (DH) Dignity in Care programme under a project...
PCTs failing on children’s centre agenda
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are failing to properly incorporate the children’s centre agenda into their plans, according to the Pre-School Learning Alliance (PLA).The revelations...
NHS Confederation to vote on extending core membership to independent providers
An NHS Confederation consultation on including independent providers of NHS services in its core membership has closed with 75 per cent of members voting...
Anorexia treatment threatened by new mental health laws
A national eating disorder association has said that new rights on the refusal of treatment relating to mental health conditions could prove ‘very difficult’...
PCTs to commission self-managed long-term care
In the first move of its type the Department of Health (DH) has established a social enterprise organisation by officially launching its Experts Patient...
Cambian opens new female-only facility
Cambian Healthcare has strengthened its presence in gender specific psychiatric services after opening St.
Teilo House, a 24-bed female rehabilitation facility in South Wales.The facility,...
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