Bupa rebrands home healthcare division

The complex home healthcare provider Clinovia has changed its name to Bupa Home Healthcare under the next phase of its ownership under the health...

Advent exits US healthcare insurance market

Advent International, the US-based private equity investor which recently acquired Craegmoor Healthcare, has sold its interest in an American provider of outsourced services to...

CBT proves best with ‘recurrent depression’

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is most effective in patients who have had four or more prior episodes of depression, according to research published in...

Dementia

Dan Rogerson asked the Secretary of State for Health (10 Nov 2008: Column 826W) how much he plans to spend on implementation of the...

Charity calls for compulsory dignity assessments

Health and care providers should be monitored, assessed and held to account over the levels of dignity and respect shown to their users, according...

Dementia: Research

David Drew asked the Secretary of State for Health (29 Oct 2008: Column 1057W) how much is being spent on Government commissioned and funded...

Palliative Care

John Mann asked the Secretary of State for Health (20 Oct 2008: Column 76W) what his department’s policy is on do not resuscitate decisions.Ann...

Dementia: Finance

Mike Hancock asked the Secretary of State for Health (27 Oct 2008: Column 646W) what analysis his department has undertaken of the funding required...

Dementia: Drugs

Paul Burstow asked the Secretary of State for Health (15 Oct 2008: Column 1348W) when he expects to publish proposals to reduce the level...

Company briefs

TOP OF THE POPS: Six healthcare companies appear in the latest Sunday Times Top Track 250 listing of the country’s biggest mid-market private companies. Coming...