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by commercially driven private providers or enterprises," The exodus of doctors left a department with too few staff to function, and put Circle under "financial pressure" because they had to pay nearly £300,000 per year each for six locum doctors, some insufficiently qualified to be on the specialist register. A report, by Dr Chris Clough of Kings
College Hospital, London, called for the trust, Circle and Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Group to work together to solve the problem. The handling of these changes by both commissioners and providers was described as an 'unmitigated disaster'. The consultants had concerns about transferring "to an uncertain model at Circle". The consultants said the company had no experience of the highly specialist work they provided and that this would "inevitably lead to a downscaling of their ability to deliver effective training and research".
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