New budget PMI brand

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 2003A new budget private medical insurance (PMI) brand has been launched, underwritten by United Life & Health Insurance...

South London cuts back private provision

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) December 2003Plans by South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Trust to bring its psychiatric services in-house are progressing, following...

Private sector nurses awarded

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) December 2003The work of three independent sector nurses was recognised last month when they received Nursing Standard Awards at a...

New Patients Forums regulations

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Under new Department of Health regulations, primary care trusts are now required to incorporate new directions into the contracts...

Cost of depression among adults in England

The total cost of adult depression was estimated at over £9 billion according to research published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. In a...

NHS-BUPA nursing exchange scheme

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Nurses from BUPA's hospital in Southampton have undertaken a secondment at a NHS hospital in Portsmouth as part of...

David Ormerod buys Boots Hearingcare

Healthcare Market News (News) December 2003Boots The Chemists has sold its in-house Boots Hearingcare business to the relatively unknown David Ormerod Hearing Centres, a...

EU gender legislation

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 2003The European Commission has unveiled proposals which could change the way in which medical insurance costs are calculated...

Huntercombe Edinburgh lying empty

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) December 2003A new private hospital set up to treat Scottish children with anorexia is lying empty, allegedly because of...

Medicash operations director

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) December 2003Liverpool-based health cash plan provider Medicash has appointed Therese Eltringham to the newly created position of operations director, a...