Is private practice by NHS doctors still controversial?

摘要

The issue of NHS doctors practising privately still sparks heated debate. The ongoing renegotiation of the consultant contract, the contested lifting of the pay freeze on NHS staff," and the finding that pay has fallen dramatically in real terms since 2010, have thrown this into sharper relief. And some on the political right argue that, with pensions and automatic increments, public sector workers have done better than the private sector and that UK doctors are high earners by international comparison. The potential in England for swathes of NHS provision to be opened up to private providers after the 2012 Health and Social Care Act leads us to consider where their clinicians might come from.