NHS pays £20,000 a week for a doctor,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9150772/NHS-pays-20000-a-week-for-a-doctor.html

shortages caused by European rules

It's time we told Europe where to go.

Or got the staffing levels right like every other employer has had to, they were given an (working time directive) exemption because of the time it would take to train new doctors and still want 120 hour weeks for junior doctors. When the amount of time that a driver can be behind the wheel of a coach is limited for safety reasons it defies logic to think a doctor will work safely for three times as long.

How GPs are set to make a killing out of NHS reform

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-gps-are-set-to-make-a-killing-out-of-nhs-reform-7584572.html

Agencies make millions from £120-an-hour doctors

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9164697/Agencies-make-millions-from-120-an-hour-doctors.html

Think I trained for the wrong job!

GPs' shares in private firms raise alarm

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/gps-shares-in-private-firms-raise-alarm-7593668.html

GPs offered £30 to cancel hospital follow-ups for patients

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/13740794/gps-offered-30-to-cancel-hospital-follow-ups-for-patients

Former NHS chief exec received £150,000 pay-off,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9203575/Former-NHS-chief-exec-received-150000-pay-off.html

Posted By Ian on 14th Apr 12 at 11:20pm

 

Former NHS chief exec received £150,000 pay-off,

I reckon she'll be back as a very well paid "advisor"

£168m spent on NHS redundancies, according to leaked Government figures

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/168m-spent-on-nhs-redundancies-according-to-leaked-government-figures-7643283.html

Should we be told how much our healthcare costs?

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/20/should-we-be-told-how-much-our-healthcare-costs/

Should we tell them how much we've paid in National Insurance?

Delays 'cost NHS £324m'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/delays-cost-nhs-324m-7689170.html

NHS hospitals had to be bailed out to the tune of almost £415 million last year after running out of cash, according to Department of Health figures.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9245859/Hospital-bailouts-top-400m.html

The NHS is paying “extortionate” prices for basic computer equipment and services, with dealers collecting profit margins of up to 328 per cent, a study has found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9260179/NHS-pays-extortionate-328-per-cent-mark-up-on-printer-parts.html

That's what you get when you use "preferred suppliers". My firm is one to the MOD and we rip them off on most things, e.g. a 13 amp fuse is £6.00. Great for us but bad for the military.

NHS 'paid £17 for gluten-free pizza base' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17755552

Health ministers hope to save taxpayers £1.2 billion over the next four years by getting NHS managers to become better at buying millions of medical items from surgical gloves to MRI machines.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9293524/Better-buying-to-save-NHS-1.2bn-claims-minister.html

NHS trust paid £75,000 fee to 'phantom' firm

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-trust-paid-75000-fee-to-phantom-firm-7831936.html

NHS savings plan ‘un-doable’ warns economist

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/14137288/nhs-savings-plan-un-doable-warns-economist

Ministers take over 'bankrupt’ hospitals

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9355452/Ministers-take-over-bankrupt-hospitals.html

South London Healthcare faces being dissolved http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18584968

NHS trust to be put in 'special measures' over £150m debt

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/25/nhs-trust-special-measures-debt

NHS hospital loans under PFI in question
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18584968

The state faces huge costs because of flaws in PFI contracts agreed by the previous administration

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9356532/The-NHS-is-paying-for-Labours-dodgy-deals.html

Government 'grasping nettle' over NHS debt

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9356328/NHS-trusts-at-risk-government-grasping-nettle-on-healthcare-debts.html

Tony Blair has defended the spread of private finance initiatives under Labour as seven NHS trusts face administration as they struggle to repay large debts from PFI deals.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9356942/Blair-defends-PFI-as-NHS-trusts-face-bankruptcy.html

South London Healthcare NHS Trust put into 'administration' as another 20 trusts face serious financial difficulties

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/south-london-healthcare-nhs-trust-put-into-administration-as-another-20-trusts-face-serious-financial-difficulties-7888134.html

Why South London Healthcare struggled
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18594046

Andrew Lansley's NHS hospital crackdown is a product of PFI

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/26/andrew-lansley-nhs-crackdown-product-pfi

Don’t sign, hospitals warned before PFI deal
An NHS hospital trust was officially warned not to sign the £500 million PFI deal that left it on the brink of bankruptcy, an independent report discloses.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9360532/Dont-sign-hospitals-warned-before-PFI-deal.html

The funding timebomb that crippled an NHS healthcare trust

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-funding-timebomb-that-crippled-an-nhs-healthcare-trust-7888977.html

An NHS quango has provided its staff with a £1 million fleet of luxury cars, including a BMW convertible, an Audi TT and three Range Rover Evoques.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9370075/NHS-staff-drive-fleet-of-taxpayer-funded-luxury-cars.html

So what's wrong with buses and trains like the rest of us?

On the gravy train already

NHS pays out record £1.2billion as compensation claims rocket by 40% in ONE YEAR

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2168284/NHS-pays-record-1-2billion-compensation-claims-rocket-40-ONE-YEAR.html#ixzz1zbC8DFmQ

NHS will need extra £20bn a year by 2020, says thinktank

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/04/nhs-20-billion-pounds-2020

£1bn bailout to NHS trusts in six years

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/1bn-bailout-to-nhs-trusts-in-six-years-7912769.html

Ailing NHS hospital trusts receive multimillion-pound bailout

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/05/nhs-hospital-trusts-cash-injection

UK cuts £6.7bn more than planned http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18744757

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust losing £100k a day http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-18778950

NHS pays £1,600 a day for nurses as agency use soars

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9400079/NHS-pays-1600-a-day-for-nurses-as-agency-use-soars.html

The nurses aren't getting that money, the agencies are.

Healthcare firm fined over death of man aged 85

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/healthcare-firm-fined-over-death-of-man-aged-85-7956781.html

Cost-cutting consultant paid £1m by debt-ridden NHS trust now gets £100,000 for a two day week at another struggling hospital

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2177723/Consultant-paid-1m-debt-ridden-NHS-trust-200-000-10-weeks-work-struggling-hospital.html#ixzz21U7w7pcw

"Oops...I've just bought a new boat" cash-strapped NHS Trust boss tells Twitter followers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9428869/Oops...Ive-just-bought-a-new-boat-cash-strapped-NHS-Trust-boss-tells-Twitter-followers.html

NHS spends £900,000 on private ambulances in London during Olympics

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/26/nhs-private-ambulances-london-olympics

The chairman of a flagship NHS hospital has been sacked after a £5m financial black hole was discovered, it has emerged.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9449139/NHS-hospital-chairman-replaced-after-debt-discovered.html

Dr Lucy Dawson, accused of swindling £30,000 in sick pay from the NHS, was exposed by her former lover after she boasted on Twitter about earning “megabucks” by moonlighting, a court hears.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9460259/Former-lover-exposed-moonlighting-doctor-after-Twitter-boast.html

Lesson 1: Don't have an affair with your boss.
Lesson 2: Keep your mouth shut about your fiddles.

NHS managers must be paid through normal channels: Sir David Nicholson
NHS hospitals have been ordered to stop paying temporary managers off the books in a bid to stamp out tax avoidance, it has emerged.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9494697/NHS-managers-must-be-paid-through-normal-channels-Sir-David-Nicholson.html

Tax-avoidance crackdown for NHS

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/taxavoidance-crackdown-for-nhs-8079572.html

Eleven NHS foundation trusts rated 'excellent' are in deep financial difficulties

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2205097/11-NHS-foundation-trusts-rated-excellent-deep-financial-difficulties.html#ixzz26rQS1zyq

NHS trusts in debt double in year http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19650963

NHS faces £8bn cuts 'after next election'

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-faces-8bn-cuts-after-next-election-8157491.html

The NHS has stockpiled cash reserves of almost £4bn despite more than doubling the number of hospital trusts and Primary Care Trusts in the red, a report has revealed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9554698/NHS-has-cash-reserves-of-almost-4bn-report-shows.html

NHS spends £4m a week on elderly who block beds with managers blaming cuts for problems getting worse

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2207546/NHS-spends-4m-week-elderly-block-beds-managers-blaming-cuts-problems-getting-worse.html#ixzz27QbIoikN

More than 700 GPs earned £200,000 despite overall drop in salaries: figures

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9567689/More-than-700-GPs-earned-200000-despite-overall-drop-in-salaries-figures.html

Health chiefs have spent £60,000 on golf buggies to ferry disabled patients to hospital after putting blue-badge parking bays too far away from the main entrance.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9593826/Health-chiefs-spend-60000-on-golf-buggies-to-ferry-disabled-patients-to-hospital.html

NHS workers receive £21 million of 'golden goodbyes'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/9631735/NHS-workers-receive-21-million-of-golden-goodbyes.html

George Osborne makes 'billion pound raid' on NHS
Health Service Journal investigation reveals the treasury has taken back £1bn earmarked for hospitals due to underspend

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/31/treasury-billion-pound-raid-nhs

NHS defends recruitment of £97,000-a-year brand head

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-defends-recruitment-of-97000ayear-brand-head-8312688.html

NHS paid £6million to five doctors over three years for providing 'top-up' services to just one trust

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241864/NHS-paid-6million-doctors-years-providing-services-just-trust.html#ixzz2Dw4OkWdl

Negligence payouts 'bankrupting' NHS
Demand for law to be changed as damages bill climbs 10 per cent a year to reach £18bn

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/negligence-payouts-bankrupting-nhs-8432384.html

Doctor accidentally overpaid £126,000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9781347/Doctor-accidentally-overpaid-126000.html

Nursing chief anger at NHS trust staff overpayment fiasco - video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9783748/Nursing-chief-anger-at-NHS-trust-staff-overpayment-fiasco.html

Hospital pays £1,800 a day for a nurse in NHS staff crisis

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9813361/Hospital-pays-1800-a-day-for-a-nurse-in-NHS-staff-crisis.html

Surgeon's botched operations cost NHS more than £2 million

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9899604/Surgeons-botched-operations-cost-NHS-more-than-2-million.html

An NHS trust spent at least £2 million of taxpayers’ cash preventing a highly-regarded consultant surgeon from working after management took a dislike to him, a tribunal has heard.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9903392/NHS-trust-spent-2m-keeping-skilled-surgeon-off-work.html

Whitehall role in NHS staff pay-offs revealed http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21664707

Venture capital firm makes £2m selling hospital to NHS

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9915488/Venture-capital-firm-makes-2m-selling-hospital-to-NHS.html

Former Mid Staffs chief executive was allegedly 'gagged' at taxpayers' expense

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9955868/Former-Mid-Staffs-chief-executive-was-allegedly-gagged-at-taxpayers-expense.html

UK medical professionals paid £40m last year by drug companies

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9974481/UK-medical-professionals-paid-40m-last-year-by-drug-companies.html

£2k a day for trainee doctors as costs spiral out of control

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9975905/2k-a-day-for-trainee-doctors-as-costs-spiral-out-of-control.html

The highest sums paid for NHS agency doctors

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9975925/The-highest-sums-paid-for-NHS-agency-doctors.html

NHS boss handed £100,000 performance bonus despite claims his hospital was responsible for 500 needless deaths

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313649/NHS-boss-handed-100-000-performance-bonus-despite-claims-hospital-responsible-500-needless-deaths.html#ixzz2RJxN244m

Cash-strapped hospital bosses employ American IT expert on a salary of £25,000 A MONTH...and even picked up his bar tab and his laundry bill

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2322404/Cash-strapped-hospital-bosses-employ-American-IT-expert-salary-25-000-A-MONTH--picked-bar-tab-laundry-bill.html#ixzz2SvdIaFZs

Hospital chiefs took home almost £200,000 in bonuses despite two-year staff pay freeze

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10096068/Hospital-chiefs-took-home-almost-200000-in-bonuses-despite-two-year-staff-pay-freeze.html

Hospitals spend £2m to gag 52 of their staff: Despite NHS chief's claim that it only happened once

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339930/Hospitals-spend-2m-gag-52-staff-Despite-NHS-chiefs-claim-happened-once.html#ixzz2VzKjPsPU

NHS redundancy payments cost taxpayers £435m
National Audit Office data shows cost of health service overhaul, as critics descibe changes as a 'private sector bonanza

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/10/nhs-changes-cost-taxpayers-redundancy

Doctors urged to cut medicine prescription waste http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23374000

NHS prescriptions soar to record one BILLION in just one year

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-prescriptions-soar-record-one-2105992#ixzz2atfa2aa3

NHS gets own price comparison website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23555314

Pharmacy charged NHS £89 for cod liver oil it could have got for £3

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10248759/Pharmacy-charged-NHS-89-for-cod-liver-oil-it-could-have-got-for-3.html

The head of the NHS in England, Sir David Nicholson, claimed almost £14,000 in travel and food expenses in the first three months of this year, official records show.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10291851/NHS-chief-takes-14000-in-three-months-expenses.html

Senior NHS doctors claim more than £150,000 overtime for out-of-hours care (which boosts their salary to £300,000)
Some NHS consultants given triple pay to work evenings and weekends
Hourly rates vary, but can be as high as £372.50
The arrangement has been called 'outrageous and totally unacceptable'
But NHS trusts say they had to pay out to make up for staff shortages


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420989/Senior-NHS-doctors-claim-150-000-overtime-provide-hours-care-boosts-salary-300-000.html#ixzz2exQZsE1L

NHS 'gravy train' pays £570k a year for managers

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10337396/NHS-gravy-train-pays-570k-a-year-for-managers.html

Care Quality Commission pays £800k in severance to four executives
The CQC's severance payments are likely to raise concerns that taxpayers' money is being used as a reward for failure

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/19/care-quality-commission-800k-severance-executives

Jeremy Hunt launches crackdown on excessive pay of health service bosses
Health secretary says the NHS risks losing public confidence in the same way as the BBC if pay is not reined in

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/28/jeremy-hunt-crackdown-excessive-pay-health-bosses

NHS gives £1m payoff to couple - and then rehires them a few weeks later at a different trust
Karen Straughair, 50, got £605,000 when trust she worked at was wound up
Husband Chris Reed received £345,000 when his organisation was abolished
Now they are both working at another trust just weeks later


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2483071/NHS-gives-1m-payoff-couple--rehires-weeks-later-different-trust.html#ixzz2jO0eIomd

NHS urged to claw back redundancy payments from re-employed staff

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10422355/NHS-urged-to-claw-back-redundancy-payments-from-re-employed-staff.html

Lawyers grab HALF victim payouts in Mid Staffs scandal: One patient received £6.5k but solicitors got £221k
Half of the £7.4m paid to Mid Staff victims has been pocketed by lawyers
One patient received £6.5k in compensation, while his solicitors got £221k
In another case, lawyers made £50k, yet victim only received £15k
Lawyers' actions are 'unacceptable and disgraceful,' says Margaret Hodge


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2494232/Mid-Staffs-scandal-Lawyers-grab-HALF-victim-payouts-in.html#ixzz2k92VbBtA

Number of NHS 'super managers' earning up to £240,000 soars amid pay freeze fear
Figures undermine David Cameron's claims that health service bureaucracy is being cut

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/10/nhs-super-managers-428-nurse-pay

'Stealth’ pay rises for NHS staff costing £1bn a year

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10468332/Stealth-pay-rises-for-NHS-staff-costing-1bn-a-year.html

GPs 'paid £1,500 a night for A&E shifts'
Family doctors can earn almost £1,500 a shift to plug gaps in Accident and Emergency units, figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10550491/GPs-paid-1500-a-night-for-AandE-shifts.html

NHS fatcat quits - but will still be paid £300,000 over the next two years: Details emerge on same day thousands of nurses will learn their pay has been cut
Jo-Anne Wass, 46, is a close ally of NHS boss, 'the man with no shame'
Will earn up to £155,000 a year for two years after quitting next month
Comes as Jeremy Hunt ignores advice to rise NHS staff pay by 1%


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579564/NHS-fatcat-quits-paid-300-000-two-years-Details-emerge-day-thousands-nurses-learn-pay-cut.html#ixzz2vpwABLEX

Thousands of redundant NHS staff rehired http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26608829

NHS spends £100m a year caring for patients who do not need to be there

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10701356/NHS-spends-100m-a-year-on-patients-who-should-be-discharged.html

NHS chiefs' expenses: 'astounding' spending exposed
New NHS head announces clampdown on lavish spending as figures reveal expenses culture at top of health service

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10826167/NHS-chiefs-expenses-astounding-spending-exposed.html

NHS expenses: health service chiefs received free travel and hotel stays
NHS officials have been funded by taxpayers to live in hotels and commute to country homes, according to official documents

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10828627/NHS-expenses-health-service-chiefs-received-free-travel-and-hotel-stays.html

‘An absolute disgrace’: Nine NHS chiefs spent £200,000 expenses on hotels, fine dining and taxis

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/an-absolute-disgrace-nine-nhs-chiefs-spent-200000-expenses-on-hotels-fine-dining-and-taxis-9359381.html

NHS manager redundancy payouts total £1.6bn since 2010
Latest accounts reveal more than 38,000 'exit packages' agreed since reforms began, with some 4,000 later rehired

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/26/nhs-managers-redundancy-payments-total

NHS chief spends £50,000 on luxury hotels and dining
Hospital trust orders clampdown after disclosures that former chief executive spent NHS funds on five-star hotels, Waitrose shopping and even a trip to Greggs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10995416/NHS-chief-spends-50000-on-luxury-hotels-and-dining.html

NHS computer systems contractor agrees to pay $190m penalty
Computer Sciences Corporation acknowledges accounting errors relating to assumptions made about progress on long-term UK health service contracts

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/30/nhs-computer-sciences-corporation-penalty-accounting-errors

The rise of the £300,000 NHS fatcats
Investigation discloses doubling in number of NHS managers being paid equivalent of at least £300,000 a year, with some on as much as £620,000 annually

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11295416/The-rise-of-the-300000-NHS-fatcats.html