Craegmoor acquisitions

Craegmoor Healthcare has this month announced the acquisition of four homes, all of which cater for people with learning disabilities. Three of the homes...

Essex considering bids

Essex county council has received bids from two organisations for seven of its residential homes. The council sought expressions of interest for a total...

FPDSavills launches healthcare division

FPDSavills has appointed Andrew Surgenor and Craig Woollam to jointly head up its new national healthcare division.Andrew Surgenor was previously head of healthcare at...

Consultants

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) June 2000The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 10 May 2000 at column: 411W) what checks are undertaken...

Kunick in France

Kunick, the leisure management group, reported in its interim statement to 31 March 2000 that its nine nursing homes in France, run through the...

Milburn defends Green Paper

Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn, has defended the government Green Paper on the reform of the Mental Health Act at a meeting...

Mental health czar begins the process of reform

The National Director of Mental Health, Professor Louis Appleby, has described the challenges to be overcome to bring about long needed reform of mental...

Deafblind People

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 19 May 2000 at column 282W) if deafblind users of domiciliary care services were involved...

Standards for intermediate care

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 9 June 2000 at column 403W) if, in respect of nursing homes and community-based settings,...

Inquiry into consultant contract

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2000The Health Select Committee of the House of Commons has commenced its inquiry into consultants' contracts. The terms of...