Prof Neena Modi says health secretary could put children at risk by frightening parents out of seeking care at weekendsMinisters are “unjustifiably frightening” parents by wrongly claiming that sick children could be at risk if they seek treatment in a hospital at weekends,a main NHS paediatrician has said. Prof Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and contradicted several key claims made by the health secretary,Jeremy Hunt, approximately the basis for the government’s push to create a seven-day NHS and impose a original contract on junior doctors. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com