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The consultant contract: marriage or divorce?

Peter Noble, Peter Selby, Denis Kobzev and Edward Hillhouse
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.5-6-585
Clin Med November 2005
Peter Noble
University of Leeds
Roles: Director of Health Development, Faculty for Medicine and Health
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Peter Selby
Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Leeds
UK National Cancer Research Network
Academic Unit of Oncology and Haematology, University of Leeds
Roles: Director, Professor of Cancer Medicine and Head, Honorary Consultant Physician
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Denis Kobzev
St James' University Hospital, Leeds
Roles: Senior Project Manager
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Edward Hillhouse
University of Leeds
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Roles: Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Honorary Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist
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Abstract

At the birth of the new millennium Britain's Labour government published a 10-year plan for modernising the National Health Service (NHS), placing great emphasis on new ways of working. As part of this process, and following extensive negotiation, general practitioners and hospital consultants were offered new contracts in 2003. This process highlighted the issues academic clinicians and managers face in dealing with the tensions inherent in delivering the tripartite mission of teaching, research and clinical service. Following a retrospective review of clinical academic appraisals, this paper considers new strategies for strengthening the relationship across the university and NHS interface and how this novel and strategic approach might be adopted in future health policy. These findings can be helpful for both UK colleagues and for a broader international audience by providing a pragmatic approach to increasing collaboration across the higher education and health service sectors.

  • clinical academic medicine
  • consultant contract
  • university and health service collaboration
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Peter Noble, Peter Selby, Denis Kobzev, Edward Hillhouse
Clinical Medicine Nov 2005, 5 (6) 585-588; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-6-585

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Peter Noble, Peter Selby, Denis Kobzev, Edward Hillhouse
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