PPP link up with chemist

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998PPP Healthcare and Lloyds Pharmacy have announced an agreement to work together in the UK healthcare marketplace.Initially the deal...

Pharmaceutical Price Regulation scheme

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 26 October 1998 at column 66) what progress is being...

Croydon wins mental health boost

Croydon council has been awarded a £415,000 grant to improve the borough's crisis response service for adults suffering severe mental illness.The partnership funding, awarded...

Additional funding for homeless mentally ill

Over £500,000 additional funding will go towards helping mentally ill homeless people living outside London this winter, announced John Hutton, Health Minister, this month.Local...

Manor Hospital for sale

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The Manor House Hospital in Golders Green, North London, is expected to be put up for sale in the...

BUPA Middle East contract win

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998BUPA Middle East has won a major healthcare contract with the National Commercial Bank, following its launch in Saudi...

British Heart Foundation launches website

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has launched its first website, containing information on heart research and help for patients...

People with learning difficulties

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 5 November 1998 at column 678) if the government will review provision for those with...

Cancer care ‘depends on area’

Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998Over 80% of health authorities in the UK have not undertaken to fund the most effective kind of chemotherapy...

Community approach more effective than psychiatric hospital treatment for psychosis

A controlled study of two types of community mental health service has found that a community-orientated approach to treating patients with psychosis is more...