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Nurse pay to increase

Healthcare Market News (News) August 1998 Secretary of State for Health Frank Dobson has acknowledged that the salary paid to nurses is...

Coverage Care resubmits care home planning application

Community Care Market News (News) June 2003 Coverage Care Shropshire has re-submitted a planning application for a care village - the Craven...

LHF account manager

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) November 2004 LHF, part of the HSA Group, has appointed Laurie Parker as senior account manager. Parker will...

Cuts put pressure on referrals

Public sector cuts and continued pressure on charitable fundraising activities have resulted in another difficult year for Action on Addiction.

Scottish shortage prompts calls for new dental school

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) February 2004 A severe shortage of NHS dentists in Scotland has prompted renewed calls for the establishment of...

Report on empowering independent living

Community Care Market News (News) November 1998 A new report published by the Hope Network (Housing for Older People in Europe) identifies...

Proposed changes to care charges

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003 A consultation paper, Proposed Changes to Residential Care Charges and Home Care Charges from 6...

Government meets waiting list target

Healthcare Market News (News) April 1999 Department of Health figures on the number of patients on waiting lists released this month show...

Call for more care at home

Stephen Cook, Bupa Home Healthcare’s director of pharmacy, has called for the benefits of out-of-hospital care to be available fo more and more patients. Not surprisingly. Mr Cook said that there is increasing acceptance of the benefits for patients associated with providing healthcare beyond the traditional hospital setting, which means high-quality care can provided more conveniently for patients, while also creating significant cost savings for the hard-pressed NHS. He called on the healthcare sector to work together to assist NHS managers and clinicians in overcoming barriers to the introduction of out-of-hospital care so that they can make it a reality in their own organisations.

Revised commitment scheme for dentists

Healthcare Market News (Dentistry) March 2001 The Department of Health and the General Dental Services Committee of the British Dental Association have...