Consultants 'cash in': How overtime let NHS specialists earn£100,000 on top of basic salary | Mail Online

Hospital consultants are charging£100,000 a year for overtime, research has revealed.

They include surgeons at one trust who were paid£1,000 for just four hours of extra work.

This was at a time when the same trust - Mid-Staffordshire - was hit by a care scandal and standards were so poor it was said thirsty patients were forced to drink from flower vases. The consultants even threatened to‘down tools’ when managers tried to cut the payments.

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