Hospital consultants' NHS salaries top £110 000

David Oliver: Unproductive activity and NHS consultants.

With constrained public money, a growing focus arises on doctors’ key role in reducing variation in processes and outcomes and improving value in healthcare, especially how money is spent and what it delivers in outcomes that matter to patients and system efficiencies. Earlier this year John Appleby published an analysis in The BMJ comparing current and historical productivity of NHS consultant...

Isolation Hospital Consultants' Fees

Mortality of doctors in different specialties : findings from a cohort of 20 000 NHS hospital

Objectives-To examine patterns of cause specific mortality in NHS hospital consultants according to their specialty and to assess these in the context of potential occupational exposures. Methods-A historical cohort assembled from Department of Health records with follow up through the NHS Central Register involving 18 358 male and 2168 female NHS hospital consultants employed in England and Wa...

Adiposity and Blood Pressure in 110 000 Mexican Adults

Previous studies have reached differing conclusions about the importance of general versus central markers of adiposity to blood pressure, leading to suggestions that population-specific adiposity thresholds may be needed. We examined the relevance of adiposity to blood pressure among 111 911 men and women who, when recruited into the Mexico City Prospective Study, were aged 35 to 89 years, had...

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