PatientChoice signs deal with teachers’ organisation

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) July 2005PatientChoice has completed an agreement to cover up to 30,000 primary school teachers in the UK. The agreement,...

Elderly denied dignified death

Age discrimination in NHS palliative care services has led to many older people being denied a dignified death, researchers at the University of Sheffield...

Right to live case attacks Hewitt

The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) has told the Court of Appeal that the way in which doctors can overrule a terminally ill patient's insistence...

Latest delayed discharge figures

Delayed discharges have fallen universally across Britain over the past six months according to the latest figures published by the Department of Health (DH),...

MRSA plan will cover care homes

Care home managers could face criminal prosecution if they fail to maintain new hygiene codes designed to eradicate infection of the superbug MRSA, the...

Mental health independence scheme

Home care workers at Bristol city council are being given the tools to offer greater support to people with a range of mental health...

Alzheimer’s Association shut down

The Alzheimer's Association has requested that its registration as an industrial and provident society be cancelled by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) just days...

Alzheimer’s

Laurence Robertson asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 Jun 2005 : Column 414W) what discussions she has had with doctors about the...

Doctors and DH set to clash over independent sector procurement

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2005Doctors' hostility to private sector involvement in the NHS looks set to hot up over the summer, after the...

Bristol looking for PFI consultants

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) June 2005United Bristol Healthcare Trust has advertised for business and management consultants for future PFI and procure 21...