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Consultant pay to be frozen from April, says government

By Mike Broad - 10th March 2010

The pay of NHS consultants is to be frozen for 2010/2011, the Prime Minister has announced. In a speech in t ...

Roll-out of e-records "should be suspended"

By Mike Broad - 10th March 2010

The BMA has written to the government calling for a suspension of the programme to upload summaries of patient ...

More patients to be prosecuted for staff attacks

By Mike Broad - 10th March 2010

Patients or family members who attack doctors will be more likely to be prosecuted in future. Guidance issue ...

Safeguarding regulations damaging healthcare

By Mike Broad - 8th March 2010

Operating lists and outpatient clinics for children are continuing to be cancelled across the country due to t ...

Justification for polyclinics shot down by figures

By Mike Broad - 5th March 2010

Lord Darzi's plans to reconfigure A&E services, shifting huge numbers of patients to polyclinics and ur ...

"Funds to stimulate competition being wasted"

By Mike Broad - 4th March 2010

NHS reforms are failing to deliver widespread benefits, research reveals. A study by think tank Civitas sugge ...

Doctors risk prosecution over assisted suicide

By Mike Broad - 3rd March 2010

Doctors face a greater risk of prosecution for assisting a patient's suicide following new guidance, defence b ...

New rules to prevent health tourism in UK

By Mike Broad - 2nd March 2010

New proposals to prevent health tourism have been launched by the Department of Health. A key measure to res ...

More support for victims of discrimination

By Francesca Robinson - 2nd March 2010

A new scheme designed to fill a gap in the professional services available to ethnic minority doctors facing c ...

Patients unaware of summary care records

By Mike Broad - 1st March 2010

Patients don't have enough information about electronic patient records and their roll out should be slowed do ...

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