Doctors will have to declare income from private work

Every hospital will be compelled publish a register of consultants' outside earnings to highlight potential conflicts of interest with their NHS work. Doctors will now have to declare if their private work earns them more than £50,000, between £50,000 and £100,000 or more than that, it has been reported. About half of the 46,000 NHS consultants in England are thought to carry out private work, on top of average earnings of £112,000 a year. Sir Malcolm Grant, chairman of NHS England, who led the review, said that told The Times that private work had been "under the radar" for too lo...