The Department of Health have recently launched a consultation to look at whether doctors should be forced to work in the NHS for at least five years after completing their training in England. […]
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Lillie Wenzel: The impact of NHS financial pressures—a mixed picture
Recent figures revealed that NHS providers have a deficit of nearly £900 million for the first three quarters of 2016/17—a clear sign that NHS organisations are struggling in the face […]
Anita Charlesworth: National policy can create barriers which undermine consultant productivity
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long-run it is almost everything.” So said Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, and not many economists would disagree. Productivity powers economic growth […]
Oliver Loi-Koe and Anya Göpfert: HEE report seeks to address junior doctors’ morale crisis
A new report from Health Education England details plans to tackle the junior doctors’ morale crisis. Two FY2’s argue why change is urgently needed. […]
Ingeborg Welters: Brexit is making EU doctors question their future in the NHS
Ingeborg Welters discusses why many EU doctors are considering leaving the NHS as a result of Brexit […]
J Robert Sneyd: 1500 new doctors for the NHS—racing to the finish or crawling to the start line?
On 4 October 2016, England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt announced government funding for 1500 additional undergraduate medical school places starting in September 2018. Although medical schools were anticipating the need […]
Tom Nolan: QOFerendum
The arguments to leave the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) have a familiar ring to them: it’s so big it can’t reform; we need to take back control; we should stop […]
Kushal Patel: MPs move to overturn archaic Victorian abortion law
MPs voted this week to introduce a bill to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. The Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill, proposed by a cross-party body of MPs, seeks […]
John Appleby: What did the 2017 Spring Budget ever do for health and social care?
John Appleby unpicks the good news and the bad news for the NHS and social care from the 2017 spring budget […]
Jonathan Sleath: Why revalidation for older doctors needs to change
In January 2017, Keith Pearson, chair of the GMC’s own Revalidation Advisory Board, delivered a review into the future of revalidation. For many of us, anxious for some crumbs of […]