MPs say consultants are 'grossly overpaid' - The Observer 18th November 2007

Hospital consultants were given 27 per cent pay rises even though they did not agree to spend extra time seeing patients, a critical report by a parliamentary committee will say this week. Senior doctors' salaries rose to £110,000-a-year but the NHS saw few direct benefits because the government made a mess of negotiations over their new pay structure, MPs will claim. The Public Accounts Committee will castigate the Department of Health for not ensuring that the 29,000 consultants who work in hospitals in England promised to do more to help improve patient care when it approved their updated contract in 2003.

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