Tories attack Scottish HCI policy

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie MSP has warned that a disproportionate number of English NHS patients have been treated...

GMC to relax foreign doctor regulations

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Rules covering foreign doctors could be eased under plans being considered by the General Medical Council (GMC), it has...

Nestor struggles with bid approach

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 2003Nestor Healthcare Group, the UK's biggest suppliers of agency nurses, doctors and home help, has remained tight-lipped on...

Scottish agency spending up

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm is to order hospital chiefs to cut back spending on agency nurses, following a...

GPs out-of-hours fees rocket

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Out-of-hours GP providers have increased the rates of pay they offer by up to 40% in the last year,...

BMA ‘bodged’ consultant talks

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003The Hospital Consultants & Specialists Association (HCSA) has attacked the British Medical Association (BMA) for failing to secure sufficient...

NHS patients demand free cosmetic ops

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003Surgeons are being pressured by patients into recommending they have free NHS treatment for clinically unnecessary cosmetic procedures.Researchers at...

Nuffield Oxford details

Healthcare Market News (Company News) August 2003Nuffield Hospitals has released further details to HMN regarding the multi-million pound hospital it is building in Headington,...

Primecare area manager

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) August 2003Out-of-hours GP service provider Primecare has announced the appointment of Michael Beaney as a new area manager for the...

More DTC operations promised

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003The government has announced that at least another 125,000 extra orthopaedic operations are to be carried out at diagnostic...