NHS and independent healthcare providers are being invited to set up and run a new service to support doctors and dentists with physical and mental illnesses or addiction concerns.
The London Procurement Programme is advertising for organisations interested in providing the prototype service, which is expected to be up and running by this autumn.
Dozens of patients including children have now been admitted to hospital because of the national shortage of intravenous food supplies for patients who cannot eat normal food, HSJ has learned.
Introduced by the chief executive of the primary care trust as the director “from social services”, I was a regular attender at GP-dominated meetings of those responsible for primary and community health services.
A group of NHS trusts had explored letting doctors set up their own companies as a workaround for consultants who have cut their additional hours to avoid being hit with “punitive” tax bills, HSJ has learned. Trusts have explored LLPs as a workaround to ’punitive’ pension tax ...
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