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...

More NHS work for Sancta Maria

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003The Sancta Maria Hospital in Swansea has secured a contract to carry out more than 700 cataract operations paid...

NHS Dentistry

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 2003Mike Wood asked the Secretary of State for Health (14 July 2003: Column 124W) what measures are in place...

Tories attack Scottish HCI policy

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie MSP has warned that a disproportionate number of English NHS patients have been treated...

GMC to relax foreign doctor regulations

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Rules covering foreign doctors could be eased under plans being considered by the General Medical Council (GMC), it has...

BMA ‘bodged’ consultant talks

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003The Hospital Consultants & Specialists Association (HCSA) has attacked the British Medical Association (BMA) for failing to secure sufficient...

NHS patients demand free cosmetic ops

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Surgeons are being pressured by patients into recommending they have free NHS treatment for clinically unnecessary cosmetic procedures.Researchers at...

More DTC operations promised

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003The government has announced that at least another 125,000 extra orthopaedic operations are to be carried out at diagnostic...

Cosmetic surgery loyalty card

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Cosmetic surgery clinic the Harley Medical Group is offering its customers a loyalty card which entitles frequent visit customers...