As negotiations resume,health secretary says he retains lawful to force controversial new terms on junior medics ‘as a final resort’Jeremy Hunt has repeated his threat of taking the “nuclear option” and imposing a new contract on junior doctors without their consent, as talks resume on trying to terminate to the dispute.
The government and the British Medical Association (BMA) resumed negotiations on Friday morning, and three days after the first of a series of 24-hour strikes by junior doctors in hospitals across England.
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Source: theguardian.com