Welsh project wins award

A Welsh mental health and social services project has been given a national award at the Innovations in Care Conference. The project, Conwy and...

NHS Professionals overpayment mix-up

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004NHS Professionals (NHSP) has asked nurses to pay back money to the organisation, after the NHS's in-house temporary staffing...

Health spending up to 7.7% of GDP

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004 Spending on healthcare rose to more than £80bn in 2002 - 7.7% of gross domestic product...

Insurers to provide cover for EECP

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 2004Five major insurers have expanded their reimbursement structures to include enhanced external counterpulsation therapy (EECP). BUPA, Norwich Union,...

Crackdown on ‘health tourism’

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004GPs are to be offered a cash incentive for reporting so-called 'health tourists' to government authorities, following a decision...

India looking to woo British patients

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004Authorities in the Indian State of Gujarat have launched a marketing campaign designed to attract health tourists from the...

NHS Professionals

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) February 2004Tim Loughton asked the Secretary of State for Health (13 January 2004: Column 716W) how many staff have been...

Financial loan product

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) February 2004Independent financial intermediary Medi-Fi has launched a new financial loan product to help non-insured patients fund private medical...

Life Works addiction treatment centre

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) February 2004A new 24-bed addiction treatment centre has opened in Old Woking, Surrey, claiming to be one of the...

Cash incentives to manage chronic care

Healthcare Market News (News) February 2004The King's Fund has called for an urgent review of financial and non-financial incentives in the NHS to improve...