'Resign if private practice is curbed'

Dr Woodruff Walker, consultant radiologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, believes doctors should threaten to resign from the NHS - potentially bringing down the government - if ministers attempt to curb their private practice. He would prefer consultants to be paid on a 'fee-for-service' basis, as in an insurance-based ...

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