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Compensation for overseas treatment

Healthcare Market News (News) November 2003 The government has been granted the right to appeal a High Court ruling that NHS patients...

CQC pauses non-urgent inspections

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has paused some routine inspections this month in response to increased pressure on the health and care system and...

GPs respond to A&E criticism

GP representatives have hit back at criticism from the Secretary of State for Health over pressure on NHS A&E services. In a speech last month Jeremy Hunt MP blamed changes to GP working hours for an extra four million people going to hospital each year. The changes introduced by the Labour government in 2004 allowed doctors to opt out of out of hours care for a reduction in salary.

Consultants propose chambers model

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2001 The British Medical Association (BMA) has published a Health Policy and Economic Research Unit paper ...

£40m injection to end ‘Nightingale’ wards

Healthcare Market News (News) June 2002 The Department of Health (DoH) will allocate £40m to eliminate outdated wards for older people in...

Health promotion

Healthcare Market News (Parliament) May 2005 Andrew Lansley asked the Secretary of State for Health (5 April 2005: Column 1443W) where the...