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Monitor consults on income cap rules
Foundation trusts’ private patient activities will come under closer scrutiny this month after Monitor announced it would conduct a full scale inquiry into the...
Employers’ medical costs set to accelerate
The cost to UK employers of providing private medical benefits is expected to increase by 8% this year, according to a global poll of...
NICE to issue guidance on autism care
A number of specialist care projects including autism and needle exchange schemes for substance misusers are set to be investigated by the National Institute...
Lib Dems dub Britain ‘Prozac Nation’
Having announced proposals to back a co-payment scheme for personal care of the elderly earlier this year, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has...
NHS reforms dubbed as little more than a ‘national mantra’
The government’s NHS reforms are becoming little more than a national mantra as policies designed to increase plurality and competition fail to make headway...
Profits leap at East Kent
After a flat year in 2006, East Kent Medical Services Limited has enjoyed a boom with bottom line profits rocketing over five times in...
Out-of-hours GP services
Mark Hoban asked (25 January 2008: Column 2293W) what measures the Department of Health uses to monitor patients’ access to out-of-hours GP services.Ben Bradshaw:...
NHS paying over-inflated prices for agency staff
The NHS is paying agency staff hugely inflated hourly rates to cover shifts, the Conservative party claimed last month.The party used the Freedom of...
What future for computer CBT?
An Australian study comparing the effects of internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a website offering straight information on depression has found that...
Diagnostic tests at GP surgeries
Mark Hoban asked (29 January 2008: Column 334W) how many GP surgeries are equipped to provide blood tests, electro cardiograms and ultrasound scans. He...
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