- NHS boss Sir Malcolm Grant said private work under the radar for too long
- Doctors must declare if private income is more than £50,000, between £50,000 and £100,000 or more than that
- Consultants already earn an average of £112,000-a-year NHS salary
Martin Robinson, Uk Chief Reporter For Mailonline
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Clamping down: NHS England chairman Sir Malcolm Grant said private work has been ‘under the radar’ for too long and ‘we are looking into something that is quite a touchy subject’
Doctors will have to reveal the amount of money they earn from private work and could be earning more than £100,000-a-year on top of their six-figure salary, it was revealed today.
NHS England chairman Sir Malcolm Grant said private work has been ‘under the radar’ for too long and ‘we are looking into something that is quite a touchy subject’.
Under plans published today consultants, who earn an average £112,000 salary, should now declare if their private work earns them more than £50,000, between £50,000 and £100,000 or more than that.
It comes as a NHS review has raised fears that some senior doctors may be handing over too much work to junior colleagues so they can do lucrative private work.
Sir Malcolm told The Times: ‘It’s not an attempt to curb private work by consultants. Let’s just have some transparency here. Much of what goes on in these communities is almost under the radar.’
He also revealed that he might refuse to pay bonuses or change contracts after nearly a third of consultants refused to have their names on a public register.
Sir Malcolm said: ‘We are quite dismayed. It just looks wrong’.
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A spokesman for NHS England, which is trying to increase transparency, said every hospital is to publish a register of consultants’ outside earnings from April in a drive to unearth potential conflicts of interest.
Clarity: Under plans published today consultants should now declare if their private work earns them more than £50,000, between £50,000 and £100,000 or more than that (file picture)
There have been claims that doctors have also been taking advantage of longer NHS waiting lists to encourage people to go private.
It is believed that about half of England’s 46,000 NHS consultants do private work, on top of average earnings of £112,000 a year.
NHS England will be launching a major consultation on proposals to strengthen the management of NHS conflicts of interest and to clamp down on inappropriate behaviour.
Claims: Consultant Jonathan Brooks, 51, blew the whistle on under-staffing at a children’s burns unit and claimed some of his colleagues were focused on money-making private work and playing golf in their free time
Doctors have been warned they will not be able to opt out or avoid scrutiny by hiding payments from drugs companies.
Earlier this year a consultant who blew the whistle on under-staffing at a children’s burns unit claimed some of his colleagues were focused on money-making private work and playing golf in their free time.
Plastic surgeon Jonathan Brooks, 51, was seeking more than £500,000 in compensation after claiming he was effectively suspended because of his complaints.
He spoke out after a ‘lack of adequate medical cover’ left him concerned about patient safety, claiming that other doctors ‘abandon burn victims for more lucrative areas of work’ such as cosmetic breast surgery or to set up skin cancer clinics.
One manager was said to have become a ‘very accomplished golfer’ after spending just 45 per cent of his time at the hospital.
In a witness statement to a tribunal, Mr Brooks also described his unease at child patients being treated alongside horrifically burned adults – including paedophiles in hospital after being attacked with boiling water in prison – which he described as ‘the stuff of visual nightmares’.
Mr Brooks, who earned £86,000 a year at City Hospital in Nottingham, also alleged there were ‘frequent clinical incidents due to the shortage of key staff’.
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