NHS IT contract to be awarded soon

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is set to award the £10m contract for one of its four...

New PiC unit at Kemple View

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) October 2003Partnerships in Care is planning to build a new 18-bed secure unit at its Kemple View unit in...

NICE vice chair

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has appointed Dr Susannah Lawrence OBE as vice chair of its board....

£6m NHS recruitment website

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003The NHS is developing a national online recruitment service that it hopes will save more than £24m. UK IT...

Scottish minister downplays choice

Healthcare Market News (News) October 2003Further splits within the Labour Party over NHS policy emerged last month when Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm rejected...

£24m Scottish mental health action plan

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) October 2003A three-year action plan for improving mental health and well-being in Scotland has been launched by the Scottish...

Florence Nightingale medical advisor

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) October 2003Dr Peter Snowden, consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ashworth Hospital, has been appointed as medical advisor to the Florence Nightingale...

Hampshire homes plan develops

Hampshire County Council and Hampshire Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority (HIOWSHA) is driving ahead with its plans to build 500 beds at sites...

Dentistry

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 2003David Kidney asked the Secretary of State for Health (7 July 2003: Column 657W) what steps he is taking...

Private Healthcare

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) August 2003Gwyneth Dunwoody asked the Secretary of State for Health (7 July 2003: Column 665W) how the terms of the...