New MRI unit for Princess Grace Hospital
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998A new MRI unit was opened this month at the Princess Grace Hospital in Central London. The 1.5 Tesla...
Croydon wins mental health boost
Croydon council has been awarded a £415,000 grant to improve the borough's crisis response service for adults suffering severe mental illness.The partnership funding, awarded...
Revised medical workforce statistics
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The Department of Health (DoH) has released revised figures on the number of medical and dental staff in the...
Waiting lists fall
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The total number of patients waiting to be admitted to NHS hospitals in England fell by 29,100 (2.3%) between...
DoH to fund drug research
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998The Department of Health (DoH) is proposing to fund a programme of research on drug misuse, allocating a total...
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Healthcare Market News (Parliament) November 1998The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 19 October 1998 at column 984) how the National Institute...
Sussex Private Hospital purchased
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998Paydens Ltd, which currently owns The Eastbourne Clinic, has announced that it has acquired the Sussex Private Hospital in...
CFS working group membership announced
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998Details of a new working group to help promote better understanding of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) have been announced...
Additional funding for homeless mentally ill
Over £500,000 additional funding will go towards helping mentally ill homeless people living outside London this winter, announced John Hutton, Health Minister, this month.Local...
NHS hospital working with BUPA
Healthcare Market News (News) November 1998BUPA has reached an agreement with the East Surrey NHS Hospital in Redhill which will allow accident and emergency...