A leaked document has shown that the medical staff in the UK might have to accept drastic pay cuts or face sacking as the hospitals look to address their funding crisis.

The leaked document shows measures from 19 NHS chiefs to maintain services for the patients amid a multimillion-pound budget cuts. Under the new plans, the staff might have to take pay cuts of up to 5 per cent. Overtime payments for working nights, weekends and bank holidays will be scrapped and the staff might have to deal with reduced holidays and longer shifts.

A special administrators appointed by the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is set to take charge of the troubled South London Healthcare NHS Trust, which is losing £ 1million a week.

The trust, which runs Queen Mary Hospital in Sidcup, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich and the Princess Royal Hospital in Bromley, will be taken over by a special administrator having powers to sack staff and reduce services at the units aimed at cutting costs.

The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has written a letter to the board of the South London Healthcare Trust, with a warning that a special administrator will be commissioned to take over the trust.

The trust, which runs Queen Mary Hospital in Sidcup, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich and the Princess Royal Hospital in Bromley, will be taken over by a special administrator having powers to sack staff and reduce services at the units aimed at cutting costs.

Doctors in the United Kingdom have started a strike aimed at expressing their opposition to the propsoed pension reforms by the government.

They have decided not to provide non-essential service to the patients across the UK. The British Medical Association said that the decision to take industrial action, which is the first in almost 40 years, was not taken lightly. A majority of doctors had voted in favor of action in a BMA conducted poll over pension changes.

UK Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has rubbished suggestions that the sine he took in-charge and introduced reforms in the NHS the public offering rating for the health service has fallen.

He said that the NHS reforms are not linked to the fall in the approval ratings about how the health service in run in England. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham pointed out that the 2011 recorded the largest fall in the level of public satisfaction with the NHS, during departmental question session on 12 June 2012.

Under a new proposal, patients will be able to compare the treatment give by doctors and nearby hospitals on a new website.

The important information, which is available on more than 4,000 separate NHS websites, will now be brought on a single page. The web page will allow patients to know how well their GPs perform, compared to others around them for treating conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and asthma.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has assured that the new Health and Social Care Act will remain as per the core principles of the NHS.

The controversial Health and Social Care Bill is being opposed by various sections of healt workers in England. According to those opposing the NHS reforms, the restructuring could result in slashing of thousands of jobs in the health system.

An undercover investigations has revealed that gender based abortions in the UK are widespread in the UK.

Two doctors have been suspended after in the UK after they were found to be involved in helping women abort their babies solely due to the gender of the unborn child.

The doctors were found to be involved in unethical practice after an undercover operation found them to agree to abort the baby based only on the gender without any further questioning. Some doctors also agreed to prepare fake documents to abort the child.

Two doctors have been suspended after in the UK after they were found to be involved in helping women abort their babies solely due to the gender of the unborn child.

The doctors were found to be involved in unethical practice after an undercover operation found them to agree to abort the baby based only on the gender without any further questioning. Some doctors also agreed to prepare fake documents to abort the child.

A new government campaign in England states that people who drink just over the recommended daily limit for alcohol face an increased risk of health problems.

The campaign says that those who drink two glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day have thrice the risk of developing mouth cancer compared to those who do not drink daily. The ads under the campaign, Change4Life urges people to reduce their drinking.

UK leaders from various parties are set to discuss issues relating to overhauling the care delivery and support system for the elderly and disabled in England.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and care services minister Paul Burstow will hold discussions with the Labour health team on Tuesday. Campaigners across England are urging politicians to being a major change in the system.

UK's Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has urged the private health clinics in the UK to "step up to their responsibilities" in the faulty breast implants case.

Lansley has said that the private clinics that fitted their patients with faulty breast implants and think they should be removed must base the financial cost of removing them for the women. Lansley asked the private medical centers should offer a similar to those patients who had paid for cosmetic surgery.

The European Commission has called for reforms in Europe-wide regulations amid increased confusion and concerns over the case of faulty breast implants.

French firm, Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP) sold as many as 300,000 implants around the world, which were found to be harmful to the health of the women. The implants were found to be with industrial-grade silicone gel and were linked with risks of cancer. The company was closed down in France and ban was imposed on the implants.

UK’s NHS’s has offered to pay for removing implants on the NHS units that are anxious to have them removed.

Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley has said that the private clinics that fitted their patients with faulty breast implants and think they should be removed must base the financial cost of removing them for the women. Lansley asked the private medical centers should offer a similar to those patients who had paid for cosmetic surgery.

UK’s Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley has said that the private clinics that fitted their patients with faulty breast implants and think they should be removed must base the financial cost of removing them for the women.

The NHS’s has offered to pay removing implants on the NHS who are anxious to have them removed. Lansley asked the private medical centers should offer a similar to those patients who had paid for cosmetic surgery.

Health experts in the UK have said that there is a shortage of family doctors as General Practitioners (GPs) are being made responsible for as many as 9,000 patients.

They warned that the reforms planning by the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley would further worsen the situation in the UK. Dr Michael Dixon, chairman of the NHS Alliance said that the workforce is wrongly being made to being hospitals instead of communities.

He also said that the situation will get worse with the planned reforms.

Medical experts in the UK have said that the patients will be at risk even as new plans to test English language skills of foreign doctors are implemented in the country.

The European commission has recommended changes to rules on the movement of labour to make sure the person adjusts well to the adopted country. However, doctors from EU countries will still be able to register in the UK without being tested for their English skills or even medical competence.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley ahs said that the NHS in England will be measures for their quality in terms of patient experience.

The latest NHS "Outcomes Framework" will be based on surveys of patients. He also said that the patients will be asked if the service and experience in the hospital was good or bad. He also said that the new framework aims to measure the "responsiveness" of staff to patient requirements while they were in hospital.

The authorities in the United Kingdom have released a new updated flu pandemic plan to be prepared to take action on various levels.

The Department of Health released the plan that has been prepared with inputs from medical experts. The department wants to avoid panic during such an event and thus wants to be ready with its safeguard strategy. The authorities said that they would ban gatherings and would not allow commute of public transport from areas that have been affected.

UK's health secretary has said that the NHS managers who fail to meet the deadline to prepare hospitals to become foundation trusts by 2014 will be "removed and replaced" from their positions.

Andrew Lansley adopted a tougher stance indicating a new approach to the health services. He said that he was written to all the remaining NHS trusts and have reached agreements on when they would be "clinically and financially sustainable" so that the foundation status could be granted.