Fundholding

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 7 December 1998 at column 73) what contingency plans have...

Boots opens family planning clinic

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998Boots the Chemist's came in for criticism from some quarters this month when it was revealed that it is...

PPP defends premium increases

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 1998Premium rates on PPP Healthcare's Extensive policy have been increased by 56%. However, PPP Healthcare has defended the...

LST Clinic closed

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998The LST Clinic, based in Harley Street, Central London was closed this month. It is thought the group had...

Complaint against HSA upheld

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 1998The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint against a direct mail campaign undertaken by HSA Healthcare....

Government publishes mental health strategy

Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson this month announced the government's proposals to modernise mental health services. The proposals are set out in...

Call for rational not rationed approach to prescribing

The National Schizophrenia Fellowship (NSF) is calling for a more rational policy on prescribing atypical neuroleptics for people with schizophrenia following research which showed...

New dentistry regulations will push up waiting lists

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) December 1998Dentists are refusing to treat patients who require a general anaesthetic following the publication of new guidance by the...

Bill could net NHS £100m a year

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998The government has published a Bill which it believes will raise in the region of £100m per year for...

Government funding not reaching dental practices

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) December 1998The British Dental Association (BDA) has published figures which show that £13m of government funding for NHS dentistry has...