| NHS closes its doors to foreign doctors 7 February 2008, The Times Doctors from India, South Africa and other Commonwealth countries are to be barred from the NHS in an attempt to preserve health service jobs for British... |
7 February 2008, Daily Express Two-thirds of GPs will reject Government plans to add three hours on average to their working week, a poll has suggested. Health Secretary Alan Johnson has written to every GP in England explaining why he wants surgeries to open at weekends and in the... | 7 February 2008, The Independent Junior doctors from outside the European Union are to be barred from specialist training in this country following protests over the shortage of jobs for newly-qualified British... |
5 February 2008, Cambridge News 2 Andrew Lansley has condemned Alan Johnson's decision to extend surgery opening times ANDREW Lansley has condemned Health Secretary Alan Johnson's decision to contact GPs urging them to extend surgery opening... | 15 January 2008, The Times Newly qualified medical students are being disadvantaged by the new training... |
14 January 2008, Sunday Mercury junior doctors in the West Midlands fear a life on the dole because of increasing competition for jobs. Experts have estimated that less than a third will achieve the posts they have trained for in the... | 14 January 2008, Financial Times Gordon Brown signalled his support on Sunday for a controversial system of organ donation allowing doctors to remove the organs of dead people without the need of written... |
13 January 2008, The Dominion Post New Zealand hospitals hope some of Britain's "surplus" medical graduates can be enticed to work... | 11 January 2008, People Management Online One in three doctors were physically or verbally assaulted last year but most did not report it, according to research by the British Medical Association. |
11 January 2008, This is Exeter - Express & Echo Doctors and nurses at Exeter's main hospital have taken the equivalent of 133 years in sick leave. The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital had an annual absence rate of 4.37 per cent from April, 2006, to March, 2007. With full-time equivalent staff of 4,289, this means a total of 48,865 days were given up to... |