Shake up for A&E following critical Audit Commission Report

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001Health Secretary Alan Milburn criticised the management of Accident and Emergency (A&E) Departments last month following a damning report...

Radiotherapy Equipment

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 2001The Secretary of State for Health was asked (16 Oct 2001: Column: 1125W) what plans he has to increase...

Mental Health Foundation calls for use of risk assessment system

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001Risk could be reduced if all services supporting people with acute mental health needs used standard scales of assessment,...

DoH announces new LIFT schemes

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001Private investment in GPs surgeries will form part of a £55 million package to improve primary care premises in...

Health minister announces NIMHE’s first projects

The first projects assigned to the new National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE) have been announced by Health Minister Jacqui Smith. The...

£50 million to implement the DoH report

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001Reforming Emergency Care (£40 million of this will be used to fund an additional 600 A&E nursing posts); and...

General Practitioners

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 2001The Secretary of State for Health was asked (16 Oct 2001: Column: 1125W) when he plans to publish a...

Trust accused of sex discrimination

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001Five women at a mental health trust claim that managers struck deals with their male colleagues, giving them enhanced...

NHS too large to run centrally says study group

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2001The Institute of Directors has called for decentralisation of healthcare provision by the NHS. An independent study group chaired...

Inquiry into mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities

The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities has launched a major inquiry into the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities. The...