As the NHS tries to free up resources for frontline services, health secretary Andrew Langsley has announced that the number of health quanqos will be radically reduced before the next election.

As the number of locum doctors in Scotland and other parts of the UK continues to grow, a senior consultant has expressed concern over the competency and training of many of these locums.

In Scotland, the country’s NHS chief executive has made comments suggesting that the service could manage with fewer nurses and doctors. Speaking to an audit committee this week, Dr Kevin Woods was questioned over proposed job cuts....

A report published in the British Medical Journal has suggested that only doctors “familiar with local health care should provide out of hours services.” The BMJ report follows the 2008 death of patient David Gray after being given 10 times the normal dosage of Diamorphine by German locum doctor, Daniel Ubani....

This week the BBC reported that hospitals in Wales have turned to India to cover a shortfall in junior doctors within the NHS. A Welsh NHS delegation has recently returned from India after interviewing doctors to fill a significant number of the 400 junior doctor vacancies available in the

The Liberal Democrat/ Conservative coalition government recently released its historic policy document, ‘The Coalition: our programme for government’. In a two-page section on the NHS, the document announces plans to ‘cut the cost of NHS Administration by a third’ and divert the money towards additional medical resources for doctors and nurses.

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