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Camden News - by TOM FOOT
Published: 19 March 2009

Pension problems threaten doctors

EXPERIENCED medical staff may turn their backs on a state of the art health centre set to open in Euston later this year because they will be excluded from the NHS pension scheme.
Camden health chiefs have invited “alternative providers” – private firms – to bid for the £20million NHS contract to run a GP-led health centre in the Logica Building at the junction of Hampstead Road and Drummond Street from November.
But under the terms of the contract, NHS Camden warns staff would “not be able to participate in NHS pension and injury benefit arrangements”.
Dr Stephen Amiel, of the doctors’ group Camden and Islington Londonwide Medical Committee, said: “Not being put on an NHS pension scheme has huge implications for staff. What will therefore happen is that you will get younger doctors taking work at the centre for a couple of years until something better comes up. It will affect the continuity of care.”
The results of the tendering process will be announced in June.

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