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NHS doctors should declare income from private work, Grant says
Sir Malcom Grant, chairman of NHS England, has said, in an interview with the Times, that NHS doctors are to be made to declare their income from private work, under plans to boost transparency in the sector.
Under the proposals every hospital will have to publish a register of consultants' earnings from private work next year.
It is estimated that around half of England's 46,000 NHS consultants are believed to do private work, on top of the average basic salary of £89,000 a year.
In a review on the issue, Grant raised concerns that some senior doctors may have been spending too much time seeing private patients while handing too much work to junior colleagues or even using NHS waiting lists to boost outside work.
Grant argued: "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."
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