Some consultants are making more than £100,000 a year in overtime payments from the NHS, the BBC has learnt.Oops.
The sums - paid on top of basic salaries and bonuses - have been criticised at a time when the health service is trying to save money.
Consultants have been accused of playing the system, but doctors said poor planning by managers was to blame.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Lucrative NHS overtime for consultants questioned
"I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country." Donald Berwick, MD, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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