Private medical insurer keeps premiums unchanged

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 2001BCWA, the provident private medical insurer, has announced that it will not implement premium increases to its Preferential...

Call to stop private treatment for wronged NHS patients

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2001The chief executive of the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has called for a change in the law on medical...

The number of student nurses and midwives is rising

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2001The number of students training to be nurses or midwives is rising significantly, the Department of Health has claimed.The...

Overseas Nurses

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 2001The Secretary of State for the Home Department was asked (17 July 2001: at Column: 126W) what plans he...

Health Committee inquiry

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2001The Health Select Committee of the House of Commons has announced details of its first major inquiry of the...

Harrow Partnership

The NHS and social services in Harrow, London, have set up a partnership to deliver mental health services.Harrow and Hillingdon Healthcare NHS Trust and...

Delayed discharges

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (25 June 2001: Column: 27W) how many delayed discharges there were of NHS patients on (a)...

New funds for Wales EMI

Welsh health minister Jane Hutt has announced £13.7m of Welsh Assembly funding towards three schemes to improve inpatient mental health and elderly care services.Hutt...

New thinking on mental health

The government is to set up a National Institute for Mental Health (NIMHE) within the NHS Modernisation Agency to drive forward research and training...

Psychiatrists call for improvement in care services

A new report, entitled Community Care, from the Council of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has called for a number of improvements in the...