The bitterest pill
Widespread concerns regarding the inappropriate prescritption of anti-psychotic medication for people with dementia have escalated in the wake of the government-commissioned probe into the...
Too much ECN is bad for our health warns GHG
Independent providers taking on large amounts of ECN work to fill gaps in their revenues left by the decline in self pay activity risk...
Adolescent inpatient services: too much or too little?
Dr Faeza Khan and Dr Mahadev Jasti, consultant adolescent psychiatrists at Affinity Healthcare look at how increasing pressure on beds is impacting on mental...
Legally speaking – The changing procurement landscape
The procurement landscape is changing with an ever increasing number of challenges to procurement processes.
The healthcare sector is by no means immune from this...
CCP delivers verdict on consultants’ restrictions
Delivering its much-anticipated final report into the highly contentious issue of NHS consultants’ use of their non-contracted hours, the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP)...
Mental Health Issues Take Centre Stage
Robert Potter reports on the main talking points at this year’s Indepedent Healthcare Convention.
The extent of parity in NHS commissioning of services, care pathway...
Legally speaking – Assisted suicide: what does the law say?
Medical intervention in the end of life stages is always advancing.
With this, similar to arguments around the use of medical interventions in very premature...
Case study – ADI telehealth
Healthcare services in the UK will soon reach breaking point.
The combined pressures of an ageing – and growing – population, a decrease in the...
NHS Continuing Care costs could escalate
In what could amount to a string of landmark decisions with the potential to affect the financial support given to a growing number of...
NHS efficiency drive – a catalyst for change?
Lawyer Ross Griffiths speaks to Robert Potter about the commercial opportunities that could result from the latest NHS efficiency driveIn its recent publication Dealing...
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