Two years ago I took a job in the private sector. I agonised for days over whether I should leave my comfortable acting E grade post with the community trust. Interviews had been cancelled three times for the E grade because of lack of applicants. When I asked why I could not be given...
"The truth is, you're not going to have a lot more money to spend, but you do have to think how do we do things completely differently." He went on to say that he felt there should be more private sector involvement in the NHS, saying there should be "comple...
FOR the first time, NHS dentists earn more than half their income from private work.who pay the f u l l cost of treatment themselves.The NHS exodus, which has denied free dental treatment to millions, has coincided with average earnings soaring by 11 per cent in a year to [pounds sterli...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK is going digital slowly. The aim is now for the NHS to be largely paperless by 2023. General practice has already used electronic records, but hospitals are proving to be a bigger challenge. To get an ide a of what a paperless NHS might look...
I’ll tell you what is costing the NHS more. Dead wood staff who are off sick constantly, sitting on their arses at home getting paid full pay. They would have been long gone in the private sector. Excellent. Pay me off and I'll happily go. Of course it will ...
The bill will give the new clinical commissioning groups the legal right to commission services (doi:10.1136/bmj.e767), but Lansley says these groups will not be able to delegate their responsibilities or to favour private over public providers. He confirms that the bill will make the NHS "...
continued. The spokesperson added that DHSC had "set out" its plan "to return to life to as near normal as we can, for as many people as we can, as quickly and fairly as possible in order to safeguard livelihoods, but in a way that is safe and continues to protect our NHS." ...
‘The NHS was on its knees long before the pandemic hit’ THE government’s tax rise announcements were always going to divide opinion. The 1.25 percentage point rise in National Insurance has been slammed in the right-wing press as an unprecedented “raid” on the public purse. ...
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This is partly because the earnings boost from one-off events such as furlough or the NHS pay settlement are baked in to subsequent rises, compounding future costs. Is it right that a greater share of taxpayer cash goes towards funding healthcare and state pensions for boomers with assets that...