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...

Pay levels vary for GP practice managers

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998GP practice managers currently earn an average of £20,000, according to a recently published survey by Pay & Workforce...

Christchurch Park Hospital for sale

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998The Christchurch Park Hospital in Ipswich has confirmed that it is seeking a buyer.The hospital, which has 49 beds,...

Administrative staff

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) December 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 17 November 1998 at column 557) how many administrative staff...