Cover for psychiatric conditions expanding
Healthcare Market News (Insurance News) October 1998A consumer guide to insurance cover for psychiatric cover published by the Independent Healthcare Association (IHA) shows that...
Job prospects slump
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The latest survey of employment prospects conducted by Manpower has found that private healthcare employers are predicting a significant...
£5m to pilot new primary care services
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Health authorities, working together with family doctors, nurses and community trusts, have been invited to put forward proposals to...
PPP rolls out network
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998PPP healthcare has completed the fourth stage of its preferred provider network roll-out, adding 20 hospitals to its network....
NHS investment in information systems
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The government has announced a £1 billion investment programme into information technology throughout the NHS.Secretary of State for Health...
Surgicare reports increase in self-pay
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Surgicare, which runs day case units for surgical procedures, has reported a significant increase in the number of patients...
Call for closer links with private sector
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998Ann Widdecombe, shadow secretary of state for health, has called for a fresh approach to the debate on funding...
Brain injury forum established
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998A UK acquired brain injury forum is to be established in order to bring together a coalition of organisations...
Insurers rally to fend off regulation threats
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998The private medical insurance industry would appear to have saved itself from statutory regulation through the publication of a...
Quality audit for BUPA network hospitals
Healthcare Market News (News) October 1998BUPA is to introduce systems to measure the quality of outcomes in the 170 hospitals which make up its...