Report on new NHS charter launched

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998Health ministers have welcomed the publication of a report proposing a new NHS Patient's Charter. The report was compiled...

Healthcall personnel

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) December 1998Healthcall is understood to have parted company with a number of senior executives in recent weeks. Last month, Robert...

St Martins seeks greater corporate identity

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998St Martins Hospitals Ltd has relaunched itself as St Martins Healthcare Ltd, in an attempt to portray a more...

New strategy to tackle £150m fraud

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998Health Minister Alan Milburn this month launched a new strategy to clamp down on fraud in the National Health...

Clinicare premium increases

Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) December 1998Clinicare has announced its premium increases for 1999. Increases on its budget plan Connect, and more traditional plan...

St Vincents withdraws from acute market

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998St Vincents Orthopaedic Hospital in Pinner, Middlesex, has confirmed that it has ceased carrying out orthopaedic surgery. The hospital...

Midwives

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 9 November 1998 at column 82) what is the current...

Explicit principles of rationing should be agreed

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998A new report by Professor Alan Maynard and Karen Bloor, health economists at the University of York, argues that...

Consumers’ Association targets consultants’ private work

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998The Consumers' Association has called for a review of the influence of private practice on NHS waiting lists and...

Part-time nurses

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 9 November 1998 at column 83) what proportion of nurses...