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Aug 2019
Rise in hospital waiting lists prompts new proposals to end NHS pensions row
The government has announced new proposals to end the row with doctors over pensions in England and Wales.
Doctors were beginning to refuse to work beyond their planned hours after being landed with bills following changes to the amount able to be accrued tax-free, which led to a rise in waiting times for routine surgery.
Following this, the government has now announced that it will be putting forward a plan to allow complete flexibility to doctors, when it comes to scaling down their pension contributions to avoid breaching the annual tax-free allowance.
Health secretary Matt Hancock said “NHS doctors do extraordinary life-saving work every day – they should not have to worry about the tax impacts if they choose to go the extra mile by taking on additional work to help patients.”
The BMA’s Dr Chaand Nagpaul, said “We acknowledge this step forward by the government.
“After tireless lobbying on the damaging effect that perverse and ill-thought out tax legislation is having on our NHS, its doctors and patients, it is good to see the government finally sitting up and taking notice and proposing action.”
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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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