Sentence examples for consultant contract from inspiring English sources

The NHS plan had heralded proposals to renegotiate the consultant contract and introduce annual appraisal for doctors.

The trusts had also underestimated the cost of the new consultant contract, which led to significant pay increases for senior doctors.

Consultant contract - main proposals • Under the current system, next year's starting salary for an NHS consultant would be a minimum of just over £50,000.

Sir Bruce's intervention could mark a turning point in the bitter row between Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, and the British Medical Association, the doctors' union, over seven-day services and the consultant contract.

The health secretary, Alan Milburn, put the government on a collision course with the medical profession today after pressing ahead with controversial proposals to reform the NHS consultant contract.

The waiting-time reductions are due to a planned increase in NHS cataract facilities agreed by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the then health secretary, Alan Milburn.The fact is that consultants working innovatively and flexibly for the NHS have brought down waiting lists, and the consultant contract has been instrumental in developing methods that have made it easier to meet targets.

Last year, Mr. Beame said, $68‐million in such consultant contracts were let.

Such general engineering consultant contracts usually take 18 months to two years, Rahn said.

And he has pledged to use more city workers for information-technology projects in the aftermath of a payroll scandal involving consultant contracts.

Current consultant contracts allow senior doctors to opt out of weekend work while on call as long as it is not an emergency.

There are no rules against it in principle but consultant contracts stipulate there must be no conflict of interest between NHS and private work.