NHS agency costs coming under control

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2005The cost of employing agency staff in NHS hospitals has fallen for the first time in recent memory. According...

NHS waiting lists

Healthcare Market News (News) March 2005NHS waiting lists rose by X% in December 2004, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health....

Figures confirm rise in Scotland’s self-pay business

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2005Figures published by the Scottish Independent Hospitals Association (SIHA) have confirmed speculation that Scotland's self-pay market is flourishing. Self-financing...

Operations

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) May 2005Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 April 2005: Columns 1557W/1558W) how many operations were contracted...

Priory offers free consultations for alcoholics in the City

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) May 2005The Priory Group has launched a major advertising campaign targeting high-performing professionals in the financial services community and...

Primecare loses Hampshire out-of-hours contract

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2005Primecare, the out-of-hours division of troubled Nestor Healthcare, has been dealt yet another blow with the announcement that four...

NHS caesareans transferred to Portland

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2005Elective caesareans from Northwick Park hospital, part of North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, could be transferred to HCA's...

Private operations

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) May 2005Margeret Munn asked the Secretary of State for Health (6 April 2005: Column 1559W) what his policy is on...

Priory to open flagship autism unit next year

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) May 2005The education services branch of the Priory Group has acquired the former school of the Royal National Institute...

Patients not being put at centre of NHS care

Healthcare Market News (News) May 2005Patient care is improving in high priority areas of the NHS such as cancer care and coronary heart disease,...