Brewin Dolphin named leading broker 29/06/09
Brewin Dolphin Investment Banking (BDIB) has been named as leading healthcare broker in the 2009 Thomson Reuters Extel UK Small Cap Survey.

Cancer patients get right to private consultation. 29/06/2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce today that patients faced with long waits for cancer treatment will be given the right to see a private consultant.

Investigation into integrated care pilot: 23/06/2009
One of the Department of Health’s (DH) 16 integrated care pilot schemes is to be investigated by the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP), to see if it breaches merger, choice and competition rules.

Nuffield completes investment in clean bill of health 17/06/2009
Next week marks the completion of the final phase of Nuffield Health’s £27 million investment programme in its hospital decontamination services, on time and on budget, when Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital is supplied with the sixth and final unit in a national network of state-of-the-art Hospital Sterile Service Units (HSSUs) opened by the charity in the past tw

Job losses put to the vote 16/06/2009
Axa PPP healthcare has become the latest health insurance provider forced to cut its coat according to its cloth, in a bid to weather the current economic downturn. In a move which smacks of turkeys voting for Christmas, the company has given staff a vote on options for surviving the recession, including 300 redundancies, ending bonuses for up to three years or increasing working hours by 10% without increasing pay.

Britnell quits NHS for European position 11/06/2009
The NHS director general for commisisoning and system management Mark Britnell is leaving the Department of Health (DH) to take up a job heading a European healthcare division of auditor's KPMG.

Restrictions on consultants’ non-contracted hours 09/06/2009
Restrictions on NHS consultants’ ability to work for alternative providers of NHS-funded services during their non-contracted hours may be having an adverse effect on patient choice and competition. And the situation has now prompted the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP) to publish two discussion papers on the subject as part of its on-going study.

Will Burnham's appointment bring about culture change in health? 08/06/2009
Former Culture Minister Andy Burnham has taken the place of Alan Johnson as the country's new Health Minister following Gordon Brown's pre-EU election cabinet reshuffle.

Johnson moved from health in reshuffle 05/06/2009
The prime minister has moved Alan Johnson from the Department of Health (DH) and promoted him to the position of Home Secretary in the latest twist of the on-going turmoil at the government.

NAO calls for improved autism support 05/06/2009
offer sufficient levels of support to adults with the condition the National Audit Office (NAO) has said today (5 June).