THE rise in the number of NHS bureaucrats has outstripped increases in front-line staff in Scotland, new figures reveal.

It’s hardly surprising that some NHS Trusts still face shortages in front line staff. The average Trust Chief executive - NHS managers already among the best paid public servants in the country - enjoyed a salary rise of 7.6 per...

Patients and front-line staff will see little immediate difference as the health service reforms come in – other than the NHS getting better, says Andrew Lansley

Today’s Western Mail front page will no doubt make for uncomfortable reading again for David Cameron. For members of the Tory party to be associated with a think tank that describes the NHS as ‘Stalinist’ in the current political climate is not the best move. America’s attack on the NHS has been a golden opportunity for Brown whilst Cameron has been left reeling from commen...

The front pages quite rightly today detail the desperate case of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The Guardian lists some of the failings. I doubt there is a clinician alive in the NHS today who has not seen how targets...

Large sums of money could be saved and put back into front-line services by cutting back on NHS bureaucracy, the Conservatives will say.

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Gill Harris Gill Harris is a highly successful NHS administrator. She started her professional life as a “specialist” nurse but soon took residence firmly behind a desk. Her career began as a specialist nurse at Addenbrookes NHS Trust, moving onto the Head of Nursing position at University Hospitals of North Staffordshire NHS trust before moving into general management.

She joined Wrighti...

The BBC ran a front-page article this week on the £65bn cost of PFI to the NHS. Based on a FOI request, the BBC has calculated that £11.2bn of assets (new hospitals) will cost the NHS a total of £65bn of the next 30-40 years. However there is a question as to whether the price was too high - essentially are private companies profiting at the tax-payers expense?

Scotland's health minister has been warned that front line NHS care will have to be sacrificed to fund her plan to spend more than £1 million on bureaucrats to handle patient complaints.