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...