The Health service journal
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Evaluation of six pilot schemes using specialist GPs to provide ENT services in the community suggests these innovations are popular with patients and have the potential to reduce waiting times. Waiting times in one area, where a specialist GP had been in post for three years, were down to 24 days. The schemes need champions in primary and secondary care and must fit well with the strategy of the local health economy.
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Post-qualification salaries have increased by 4-7 per cent, a slowdown on last year's figures when increases were often more than 10 per cent. The highest increases this year tended to be in medium-sized trusts where newly qualified accountants' salaries rose 8.2 per cent. ⋯ Newly qualified accountants in large trusts earn 5 per cent more than in medium-sized trusts and 13 per cent more than in small ones. The survey is based on an analysis of salaries from Hays' jobs database, and salaries of registered candidates.