06
Oct 2015
David Cameron has announced at the Conservative Party’s annual conference that GPs throughout England will be offered a voluntary contract to provide a service for patients seven days a week. He also announced that seven-day services throughout hospitals will be extended to “half the country” by 2018 and to the whole of England by 2020.…
06
Oct 2015
MP Dr Dan Poulter, who was a minister at the Department of Health between 2012 and 2015, has said that junior doctors are “rightly upset” about possible cuts to their pay. He added that the Government’s proposed new contract will discourage junior doctors from choosing careers in areas that are going through recruitment problems. The…
02
Oct 2015
An investigation by the doctors’ magazine Pulse has found that some GPs in England are being offered payments, in some cases thousands of pounds, to reduce the number of patients they refer to hospital. Affected referrals include scans and specialist consultations, including those for suspected cancer patients. The investigation found that at least nine CCGs…
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