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The medical director of the NHS, Sir Bruce Keogh, is calling for senior doctors to support seven-day working ? setting the stage for a clash between the government and consultants over a major reform to the health service.
Keogh believes the shift to seven-day working for consultants is essential if standards are to be raised. There is hard evidence, he says, that patients are more likely to die if they are admitted over a weekend.
But in a head-to-head debate in the British Medical Journal, the chairman of the British Medical Association's consultants committee, Paul Flynn, rejects the idea, asking who will pay for senior doctors to be on the wards seven days a week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/22/nhs-chief-consultants-seven-day-working
Keogh believes the shift to seven-day working for consultants is essential if standards are to be raised. There is hard evidence, he says, that patients are more likely to die if they are admitted over a weekend.
But in a head-to-head debate in the British Medical Journal, the chairman of the British Medical Association's consultants committee, Paul Flynn, rejects the idea, asking who will pay for senior doctors to be on the wards seven days a week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/22/nhs-chief-consultants-seven-day-working