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Glencare opens ABI unit

A new service to address the lack of specialist care provision in London for people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is being opened by Glen Care.

Capio launches course for adolescents

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) August 2005 A course aimed at preventing psychological and behavioural problems in 12 to 18 year-olds has...

Study on suicide prevention published

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) March 2003 Efforts at suicide prevention should focus on enhancing patients' social and religious networks according to...

Priory Group buys two new services

The Priory Group has announced two new acquisitions: the Peninsula Autism Services and Support Ltd (PASS) in Plymouth and Harbour Care covering Bournemouth and Poole.

£521m Birmingham programme

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) February 2004 Consort Healthcare, a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and...

Priory Group trials free post-trauma psychiatric assessments

Healthcare Market News (Mental Health) June 2003 The Priory Group is offering personal injury (PI) lawyers in the West Country a free...

Mental capacity code: revisions needed

Mental health organisations have criticised industry mental capacity guidelines. They argue the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Code of Practice needs to be revised to enable health and social care staff to make more effective best interest decisions on behalf of the estimated one million people in the UK deemed lacking in capacity to do so themselves.

Scottish agency spending up

Healthcare Market News (News) August 2003 Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm is to order hospital chiefs to cut back spending on agency...

Coventry Health Centre

Healthcare Market News (Public Private Partnerships) June 2004 A £3m health centre has opened in Coventry. The PFI agreement with Focus Prime...

NAO reports on progress towards mental health access standards

The cost of implementing improved access and waiting time standards for mental health services could be far higher than anticipated, according to the National...