The Department of Health has announced plans to extensively expand its medical training placements by an extra 1,500 doctors per year by 2020. The plan is being hailed as the “biggest ever” in the health service’s 69 years. The current number of student doctors is said to increase by 25% under the new proposal … [Read more…]
Nearly 2 months after the new reforms of the IR35 legislation went live (see our previous article on IR35 here) clients and contractors are still getting to grips with the new taxation laws. The point of the new changes which were made back in April 2017 was to shift the responsibility of determining how a … [Read more…]
There is often confusion when it comes to differentiating Physio from Occupational Therapy with many believing the two are one in the same thing. Whilst these two professions do; at times, crossover, there are many key differences between them. Treating individuals with physical problems which may have been caused by illness, injury, disability or ageing … [Read more…]
Newsnight has found that NHS patients who have been referred to private care for hip and knee replacements fare better than the patients who receive treatment on the NHS for the same procedures. This took into account age, gender and race. There is currently only enough data to compare outcomes for these two procedures, however … [Read more…]
Stephen Nickell, who is on the board of the Office for Budget Responsibility, suggested 35% of ‘health professionals’ came from outside the UK. Recent estimates suggest that over a quarter of all UK consultants are not British nationals but the figure for the total health staff is lower. UKIP said the NHS jobs could be … [Read more…]
Nick Clegg has told MPs in angry exchanges in the House of Commons that the only privatisation of an NHS hospital has come under Labour. He was speaking about Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire while pointing at the shadow health secretary Andy Burnham. He had been sparring with Harriet Harman at PMQs who claimed the deputy prime minister … [Read more…]
A review lead by Sir David Dalton suggests companies could be contracted to manage publicly funded hospitals, for which he used Spain as an example. Currently, only one of the 242 hospital providers is run by a profit-making firm, Circle, which won a 10-year contract to operate Hinchinbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire. The review, headed by Sir … [Read more…]
Following a Freedom of Information request made by the British Medical Journal, it has been revealed that one third of NHS contracts have been awarded to private companies. Of the 3,494 contracts awarded by 182 Clinical Commissioning Groups in England between April 2013 and August 2014, 33% were awarded to the private sector. The government … [Read more…]
A senior NHS adviser has warned that management consultants hired by the NHS are behaving like “racketeers” and “arms dealers” in times of war – making vast “spoils” from the Government’s reorganisation of the health service. management consultants hired by the NHS are behaving like “racketeers” and “arms dealers” in times of war – making … [Read more…]
The NHS executive accused of covering up a damning report into patient safety at a hospital in Cumbria has been awarded £60,000 for the damage caused to her reputation and the distress she was subjected to. Jill Finney was accused of having given the order to delete evidence which showed that the Care Quality Commission … [Read more…]