Clinicare premium increases

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 1998Clinicare has announced its premium increases for 1999. Increases on its budget plan Connect, and more traditional plan...

Training Support Programme

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 17 November 1998 at column 565) what resources will be made available to the Training...

Service launched for overseas visitors

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998London Medicine has launched a visitors service which will allow people coming to London from abroad to book travel,...

Administrative staff

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 17 November 1998 at column 557) how many administrative staff...

Day surgery update

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998The Audit Commission has published an update to its study on day surgery first published in 1990. The original...

Nurse training

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 17 November 1998 at column 561) what plans there are...

Borders council keeps residential homes in-house

Scottish Borders Council has confirmed this month that after inviting tenders from the private sector for its six residential homes, it has decided to...

Explicit principles of rationing should be agreed

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998A new report by Professor Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor, health economists at the University of York, argues that...

Action group highlights costs of overseas visitors

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998Concerns have been voiced over the legislation and regulations regarding the treatment in NHS hospitals of non-resident patients. The...

Prime Health launches GP helpline

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 1998Prime Health has launched a GP advice line for customers of its Primecare Plus and Primecare Gold policies....