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Immediately prior to Didit, he served as SVP, Products and strategy at Ask.com he joined Ask when MaxOnline, of which he was CEO from 2002 - 2004, was acquired by Ask in 2004. Previously, he was general manager of Ad Platforms & Global Exchange at Yahoo, where he oversaw the company’s advertising platforms business including the Right Media Exchange and APT by Yahoo, Yahoo’s intelligent media planning and buying platform.īill joined Yahoo from his role as President of Right Media, which Yahoo acquired in 2007, bringing him on board and integrating Right Media’s Exchange as the solution for Yahoo's entire non-guaranteed, spot market inventory.īefore leading Right Media, Bill was CEO of Didit, an independent search marketing firm, from 2005 to 2007. Bill has also been ranked on the SAI 100 listing of tech business leaders.

The report is available at Wise is the CEO of MediaBank, the operating system for the advertising industry ranked #30 on the SAI Digital 100 list of the most valuable startups in the world. However, the fact that the majority of consultants are still working in excess of their contracted hours means an increase in consultant numbers is an absolute necessity, he added. “What the contract does do is that it makes it explicit exactly what consultants do and, from that, you can sit down and plan the future,” he said. He said it was hardly surprising that no improvement had been detected to date in patient care because implementation of the contract is still in its early stages. Health boards and the Scottish Executive also need to improve the monitoring of the impact of the contract.”ĭr Lewis Morrison, a member of the British Medical Association’s Scottish consultants’ committee, said they welcomed the report. Robert Black, Scotland’s auditor general, said: “It is essential that everywhere in Scotland health boards and consultants work together to deliver benefits for patients. It is too early to determine whether recruitment and retention have been affected, the report says. The survey of consultants carried out for the report found that they are working an average of 51.2 hours a week-exceeding the European Working Time Directive limit of 48 hours. Although pay has increased (basic rates have risen from a range of £57 370 to £74 658 to one of £69 298 to £93 768), most consultants are still working more hours than they are contracted for. It is also intended to limit consultants’ working hours, improve recruitment and retention, and increase pay for most consultants. The main aims of the contract are to focus consultants’ work on the needs of patients and the health service. The executive also underestimated the costs of implementing the contract, the report says, and this has added to the financial pressures on NHS boards. The executive is still in the process of creating a system to monitor whether the contract is achieving its expected benefits. It adds that the Scottish Executive could have done more to set clear targets for boards, laying out what it wanted from the contract. The report says that to improve care NHS boards and consultants need to develop and agree well defined job plans that are linked to service priorities. Only now are they beginning to explore its potential for improving services.

In the first year of the new system NHS boards concentrated on the practical task of transferring consultants to the new contract. Only 7% of consultants who responded to an Audit Scotland survey considered that the contract has resulted in improvements to care. As such, little evidence of benefit to patients has been shown.

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It says the contract offers an opportunity to focus the work of consultants on priorities and to improve patients’ care but is not yet being used to its full potential in Scotland. The contract was the first major change in consultants’ terms and conditions since the NHS began in 1948.Īudit Scotland’s report has found that the pay bill for consultants has increased by 38% as a result of the contract. Implementation of the new UK contract for consultants has cost £235m (€345m $410m) in Scotland, yet so far there is no clear evidence that it is helping to improve the care of patients.Īudit Scotland has carried out the first independent examination in the United Kingdom of the effect of the new contract, which was introduced in April 2004.