Unions unite to fight health reform

A campaign to call for an end to what is labelled ‘creeping privatisation’ is to be undertaken by up to a dozen trade union...

Capsticks partner rated ‘most innovative’

Brian Capstick, senior partner at the law firm Capsticks, has been rated the UK’s most innovative lawyer in a recent report published by the...

Four Seasons reinforces quality commitment

Four Seasons Health Care has established a clinical governance committee to underline its commitment to quality provision.Headed by Dr Pete Calveley, primary care medical...

Tsar for learning disabilities

The Department of Health (DH) has appointed Nicole Smith to take on the new role of learning disabilities tsar in a move designed to...

GVA successes

Business sales adviser GVA Grimley has promoted Jessamy Venables and Paul Farmer to partners within the company’s healthcare division and has boosted the department...

New Christie man

The Birmingham office of business agents Christie & Co has promoted Robert Field to the position of agency manager. Mr Field joined the company’s...

NICE guidance accused of ‘destroying lives’

Hundreds of thousands of people with dementia will be forced to wait for their condition to deteriorate before being prescribed drugs according to the...

£145 for each home fall

Falls among the elderly have cost one ambulance service an average of £145 per call out, and can add up to two days of...

Think tank calls for supervised drug use

So-called ‘drug consumption rooms’ (DCR) should be set up around the UK in order to cut down the number of fatal overdoses and to...

Priory bill tops £9m

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid more than £9m over the past three years to send members of the armed forces to psychiatric...