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Primary care procurement finally under way
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has finally launched the government’s Fairness in Primary Care Procurement (FPCP) programme, which focuses on deprived areas with significant GP...
CATS services
Lindsay Hoyle asked (6 March 2007: Column 1949W) what steps the Department of Health (DH) has taken to ensure that the process to determine...
Atos Origin diagnostics contract ‘suspended’
The government’s diagnostics procurement programme was dealt another blow last month after a pilot contract with Atos Origin in the North West was suspended...
Essex ISTCs
Bob Spink asked (6 March 2007: Column 1964W) how many day beds and overnight beds will be provided at the proposed independent sector treatment...
Transfer of out-of-hours care provision ‘shambolic’, MPs claim
Preparations for the transfer of out-of-hours care from GPs to primary care trusts (PCTs) were shambolic and doctors were the only people to to...
DH releases £54m for drug and alcohol services
The government has announced a £54.3m capital investment programme to improve access to and capacity of in-patient and residential drug and alcohol treatment facilities....
NHS issues mental health and substance abuse guidance
Mental health tsar Louis Appleby has launched a Department of Health (DH) guidance booklet on improving support for so-called dual diagnosis patients - service...
US study links dementia to loneliness
A study published last month in the American medical journal Archive of General Psychiatry has linked the onset of Alzheimer’s disease with feelings of...
Elderly
Nadine Dorries asked the Secretary of State for Health (19 February 2007: Column 36W) how much has been spent on the government’s Dignity for...
Consultants dig in over BUPA’s ophthalmology network
Consultants in some parts of the country have failed to respond to a second deadline set by BUPA Health Insurance to sign up to...
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