Sentence examples for consultant contracts from inspiring English sources

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.

Mr Hunt said the BMJ study was a "wake-up call" and insisted on the "urgent" need to modernise consultant contracts "to make sure NHS patients do not have to worry about a lack of senior clinical presence if they are admitted to hospital on a Saturday or Sunday".

Dr Hoong-Wei Gan, junior doctor, London Discovering Professor Sir Bruce Keogh's complicity with Jeremy Hunt makes me seriously question the credibility of his widely publicised study on increased deaths over weekends, which is now being used to dictate health policy on junior doctor and consultant contracts.

In a letter to the hospital dated Aug. 19 and made public yesterday, the comptroller's office said the audit, which is to begin in September, would include a review of the medical center's financial condition, the use of reserve funds and administrative expenses, in addition to consultant contracts.

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

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.

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.

Jim Lites, a senior consultant contracted by the Giants to sell seats in the new stadium, acknowledged that the recession and the higher ticket costs for 2010 were having a chilling effect.