NHS pay deal agreed after four years of negotiation

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2002Negotiators representing the UK Health Departments, NHS employers and 17 NHS staff organisations have finally agreed the terms of...

BMI to run expanded PPU in Walsgrave PFI development

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2002University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust have completed negotiations on the PFI contract which will lead to construction...

Minister claims NHS on course to meet March waiting times target

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2002The Department of Health has claimed it is on course to meet its target of no patients waiting longer...

Foundation hospitals

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 2002Frank Dobson asked the Secretary of State for Health (7 November 2002: Column 529W) if he will list the...

Independent hospitals short on critical care facilities

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2002The National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD) has called for coordinated team working, improved assessment of patients before...

10,000 nurses to be trained as ‘supplementary prescribers by 2005

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2002Pharmacists and nurses could be prescribing drugs from early 2003, under plans unveiled by Health Minister Lord Philip Hunt...

Maca opposes delayed discharges Bill

National Mental Health charity Maca is concerned that the Community Care (Delayed Discharges) Bill may lead to mental health inpatients being discharged earlier than...

Mental Health Bill

Paul Marsden asked the Secretary of State for Health (21 November 2002: Column 241W) what consultation the DoH undertook before publishing the draft Mental...

Projects set up to take forward electronic booking

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2002The Department of Health (DoH) has set up 45 electronic booking programmes across England to help implement its NHS...

Broadreach House results

Broadreach House, the substance misuse treatment provider, has published its annual report for the year ended 31 May 2002. Net incoming resources were £38,517...