Adults with autism need advocacy

A report from the National Autistic Society (NAS), Autism: The Demand for Advocacy claims advocacy organisations are being prevented from helping adults with autistic...

Cambridgeshire delayed discharge fund

Cambridgeshire County Council's Cabinet has endorsed plans to cover the cost of delayed discharge fines. The fines system comes into force from January 2004...

Alzheimer’s cases to escalate

Alzheimer's disease in the US is set to escalate to epidemic proportions according to a study by a group of US researchers. Alzheimer's Disease...

DoH steps up attack on ‘health tourists’

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Proposals designed to curb the number of so-called 'health tourists' and illegal asylum seekers gaining access to free NHS...

NHS Professionals under review

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003The future of NHS Professionals is looking increasingly uncertain, with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) close to making...

Priory to launch self-help products

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) August 2003Priory Healthcare is planning to launch a range of branded products as part of a 'brand-stretch' strategy aimed...

Anti-fraud blitz targets agency staff

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003A campaign to uncover and prevent fraud by NHS agency and bank staff has been launched by the NHS...

Use private sector capacity, Welsh Assembly told

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003More Welsh patients should be sent to private hospitals and to NHS hospitals in England, the Welsh Conservatives have...

Scottish agency spending up

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm is to order hospital chiefs to cut back spending on agency nurses, following a...

Benenden faced with £4m headache

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Benenden Hospital, the independent charitable hospital in Kent, is undertaking a radical restructuring in a bid to stem mounting...