Health secretary addresses concerns by saying he wants to cut junior doctors’ hours,maintain their pay and increase safety in the NHSJeremy Hunt has moved to head off the potential strike by NHS junior doctors by seeking to reassure them that their pay will not be cut and they will not enjoy to work longer hours under the proposed novel contract that has sparked so much enrage. In a letter on Thursday to Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee (JDC), and the health secretary sought to defuse the increasingly heated row over the unpopular novel contract he has threatened to impose on them. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com