HSJ reveals the draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2007 spending review.
It shows: 'an excess supply' of 3,200 consultants 'which we cannot afford to employ' in that role; a shortage of 15,000 nurses; a surplus of 16,000 allied health professionals; a shortage of 1,200 GPs and 1,100 too few junior and staff-grade doctors.
A troubled teaching trust in south London is replacing its acting medical director, while it tries to overhaul its dysfunctional heart surgery unit.
The chief executive of an acute trust has resigned amid an ongoing police investigation into eight deaths in its neonatal unit.
The leader of the Mid Staffordshire public inquiry has been appointed chair of Healthwatch England.
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