Contract win for Liberty
Healthcare Market News (News) August 1999Transco, the UK gas infrastructure business, has awarded a three year contract to Liberty Occupational Health, to implement the...
HSA Healthcare launches new cash plan
Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 1999HSA Healthcare has announced the launch of a new cash plan aimed at people who do not require...
King Edward VII outlines new strategy
Healthcare Market News (News) August 1999The King Edward VII hospital in Midhurst, West Sussex, has outlined details of its new strategy which will lead...
Cash plan merger
Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) August 1999Two of the UK's providers of healthcare benefit schemes are merging to form one of the largest cash...
Jersey enhances private patient facilities
Healthcare Market News (News) August 1999Jersey heath and social services committee is putting into practice a continuing programme of improvement to the delivery of...
New strategy for health authorities unveiled
Healthcare Market News (News) August 1999Health Minister John Denham this month set out a new central role for health authorities in the modernisation of...
Dorset to transfer homes
Dorset county council is planning to transfer six of its seven remaining residential homes to the independent sector. The future of the seventh home...
Ombudsman criticises council’s choice
The Local Government Ombudsman, Edward Osmotherley, has this month published the findings of his investigation into a complaint against the London borough of Hounslow.The...
Bed-blocking (West Country)
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 28 June 1999 at column 49) what steps he has taken to stop bed-blocking in...
Government launches new nursing strategy
Healthcare Market News (News) July 1999The government this month announced the launch of what it claimed was the most comprehensive strategy ever produced for...