New MD to step up overseas recruitment

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2004Specialist recruitment consultancy Recruitment Solutions Group has appointed Dianne Strauss as managing director of its healthcare division, Medics Incorporated....

Capio signs multi-million pound ISTC contract

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2004The Department of Health has finally signed a major Independent Sector Treatment Centre (ISTC) contract with an established UK...

Cygnet increases profits

Healthcare Market News (Company News) June 2004Cygnet Health Care Ltd, the specialist private psychiatric hospital operator, run and now wholly owned by John Hughes...

DH announces new adviser

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) June 2004Dr Ian Barnes has been appointed the government's first national pathology adviser. Dr Barnes, who has been head of...

Dementia

Iris Robinson asked the Secretary of State for Health (1 Mar 2004 : Column 699W) what proportion of dementia sufferers were diagnosed before the...

Care services

Kelvin Hopkins asked the Secretary of State for Health (31 March 2004 : Column 1509W) if he will make future provision of nursing care...

Royal College of Psychiatrists issues guidance on Rowan Report

New guidance on how to spot abuse has been issued by the Royal College of Psychiatrists Faculty for the Psychiatry of Old Age. The...

Joseph Rowntree Report calls for more user involvement in risk assessments

New research has called for more efficient assessments of risk when dealing with mentally ill patients. The Bristol University study, Living with risk: mental...

Rethink calls for mental health reforms

Rethink, the severe mental illness charity, has criticised the government for failing to improve the lives of long term mental healthcare services users. In...

Elderly people (abuse)

Sandra Gidley asked the Secretary of State for Health (4 May 2004 : Column 1464W) if he will make a statement on his Department...