An article said that a new employment contract for National Health Service consultants introduced in 2003, which had included a 27 per cent pay rise over three years, had failed to increase productivity.
Source: Karen Bloor, Nick Freemantle, and Alan Maynard, 'Trends in consultant clinical activity and the effect of the 2003 contract change: retrospective analysis of secondary data', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 105 Issue 11
Links: Article | RSM press release
Date: 2013-Apr
