NHS consultants run private firms charging to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals

NHS consultants run private firms charging to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals Some of the country’s most senior NHS clinicians are earning a lucrative side-line running private firms that offer to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals, the Observer can reveal.

Top consultants in Manchester, Sheffield and London are among directors of “insourcing” agencies that charge the health service to treat patients at weekends and evenings and have won millions of pounds of work.

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• NHS consultants charge hospitals they work at through their own private companies The Daily Mail