Independent sector planning role

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2001The Department of Health (DoH) has underlined to health authorities and primary care groups/trusts (PCG/Ts) that they should make...

Profession signs up to NHS vision

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2001It could take up to ten years to achieve a high quality NHS, the government and the medical professions...

Hospital food

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) July 2001The Secretary of State for Health was asked (25 June 200: Column: 25W) if he will specify the remuneration...

NHS Confederation to study management resources

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2001The NHS Confederation has launched an investigation into the match between primary care trust (PCT) management resources and the...

NHS cancelled operations up again

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2001Private hospitals could find themselves called upon to do more operations for patients whose NHS operations have been cancelled...

Private treatment (NHS patients)

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) July 2001The Secretary of State for Health was asked (25 June 2001: Column: 27W) how many NHS patients were treated...

Milburn backs patient power

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2001The Health Secretary Alan Milburn has said he wants to put patients' views at the centre of reforms of...

NHS expected to move out of deficit

Healthcare Market News (News) July 2001NHS trusts and health authorities in England suffered mounting deficits at the end of the 1990s, but the situation...

Results round up

Healthcare Market News (Company News) July 2001HealthsureCash plan provider HealthSure Group Limited has reported figures for the year ended 31 December 2000. The group...

Heart monitors

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) July 2001The Secretary of State for Health was asked (26 June 2001: Column: 71W) if he will fund the provision...