Health Authority Priorities

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 199917. Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what instructions are being given to health authorities...

Residential Accommodation (Elderly People)

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard...) if he would make a statement on his proposals for reforming the funding of residential...

Capital Investment

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 199923. Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on...

St. Dunstan’s

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 1999Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons St. Dunstan's recent application for Government...

Formal admissions under the Mental Health Act

Information on patients formally detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 was published this month by the Department of HealthThis bulletin is...

Public Health White Paper

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 1999Mr. Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans the Government have for the implementation of...

BDA calls for focused regulation

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) November 1999The British Dental Association (BDA) has expressed its support for the strengthening of existing regulation in private dentistry, but...

Health Inequality

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 1999Mr. David Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment his Department has made of...

Green Paper proposes changes to law

The government has published a Green Paper setting out proposed changes to the Mental Health Act 1983. The changes proposed allow for compulsory care...

OFT endorses network strategies

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1999The Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) inquiry into private medical insurance (PMI) and private medical services (PMS) has cleared...