Hospital Dr News

Health secretary's 'preferred provider' rule faces more challenge

By Francesca Robinson - 12th March 2010

The Office of Fair Trading has been asked to investigate the government's policy that NHS organisations should be the 'preferred p ...

• Consultant pay to be frozen from April
• Roll-out of e-records "should be suspended"
• More patients to be prosecuted for staff attacks
• Safeguarding regulations damaging healthcare
• Justification for polyclinics shot down by figures

Dr Blogs

Pay deal: MPs 1.5, Consultants nil

Dr Blogs - 10th March 2010

So, it's official. Consultants will get no pay rise this year, along with many senior public sector ...

It's Friday, it's five to five, and it's a horrendogram

Tom Goodfellow - 8th March 2010

I do the nightmare Friday afternoon interventional ultrasound list, infamous because we end up havin ...

I want to look like a South American dictator

Bob Bury - 8th March 2010

We've had quite a few retirements at work recently, and several colleagues have slipped away quietly ...

How a bullying culture can be contagious

Katherine Teale - 8th March 2010

It's one crisis after another. Not only is my husband facing possible redundancy, but my daughter ha ...

Call to get involved in consultant conference

BMA - 7th March 2010

The UK consultants conference, Standing up for Consultants, will be held at BMA House on Wednesday ...