SweetTree spreads roots

SweetTree Home Care Services, the London domiciliary care agency providing services for disabled adults, has appointed Dela Begum to head a new learning disabilities...

King’s Fund picks former government man

Former government health policy advisor, and current head of UnitedHealth Europe, Simon Stevens has been appointed as a trustee at the King’s Fund and...

DH releases £54m for drug and alcohol services

The government has announced a £54.3m capital investment programme to improve access to and capacity of in-patient and residential drug and alcohol treatment facilities....

NHS issues mental health and substance abuse guidance

Mental health tsar Louis Appleby has launched a Department of Health (DH) guidance booklet on improving support for so-called dual diagnosis patients - service...

US study links dementia to loneliness

A study published last month in the American medical journal Archive of General Psychiatry has linked the onset of Alzheimer’s disease with feelings of...

Priory realise property assets?

The Priory Group will not comment on market speculation that a strategic review of the company allegedly being carried out by Morgan Stanley could...

Nestor OKs rights deal

The Extraordinary General Meeting held by domiciliary and primary care provider Nestor Healthcare last month resulted in the approval of a rights issue which...

Elderly

Nadine Dorries asked the Secretary of State for Health (19 February 2007: Column 36W) how much has been spent on the government’s Dignity for...

Capio confirms UK business could come up for sale

Capio could formally announce the sale of its UK business by the end of this month. In an interview with HMN, chief executive David...

BUPA Hospitals asks consultants to lower fees for NHS and ‘managed private’ patients

BUPA Hospitals is asking consultants to accept reduced fees in return for higher volumes of patients in a bid to grow its NHS and...