Health Ministry not pressuring hospitals to keep quiet about cuts ...
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TORONTO (CP) - Health Minister George Smitherman dismissed as &quot;ridiculous&quot; Tuesday opposition claims that he has been intimidating hospital administrators into keeping mum about potential cuts.
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Thailand's new health minister said Friday he would keep the country's controversial generic drugs programme but stopped short of saying whether the new government would expand the scheme.
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The number of patients who use hospital A&E departments when they do not need to is reviewed.
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Patients who fail to follow medical advice will not be penalised under a reformed NHS, minister says.
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Family doctors will not be given a pay rise this year, the government has announced.
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Hong Kong's health chiefs and lawmakers rebuked hospital officials on Wednesday for not informing them quickly enough when dozens of children in paediatric wards fell ill with a mysterious respiratory illness.
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MANILA -- A medical specialist of the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday assured the public not to be alarmed with the reported cases of meningococcemia, a bacterial blood disease.
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More evidence suggests UK health advisors ignored warnings which could have prevented haemophilia patients being given contaminated blood.
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The Government has stopped short of endorsing two of the main recommendations of the Shipman Inquiry to restrict doctors&#39; access to controlled drugs.
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TORONTO -- Post-partum depression clinics, breastfeeding clinics and other vital women&#39;s health services are on the chopping block as the province demands that hospitals balance their budgets next year, advocates warned yesterday.
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A hospital denies a claim that patients needing a hearing aid have the longest wait in Britain.
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The Scottish Government comes under fire for failing to give priority to the healthcare needs of military personnel.
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A health trust says a Â£500,000 funding gap to staff a cardiac unit could lead to cuts in services.
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TORONTO -- Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman denied yesterday that the province is trying to bribe doctors into cutting prescription drug costs to the poor and elderly, saying the proposal is meant to curb the over-prescription of medication to
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The health secretary is expected to announce a reversal of decisions to centralise hospital services.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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PARIS - France&#39;s health minister yesterday called for hospitals and police to work more closely after two hospital workers were found slain -- one decapitated and the other with her throat slit -- at a psychiatric facility.