Health secretary retreats on pay and working hours as he seeks to head off possible strike action by 53000 junior medics
Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive modern contract spilling over into strike action.
The health secretary moved to defuse widespread anger at his threat to impose modern terms and conditions on them by offering two major concessions and assurances that they will not see their pay gash or working hours extended.
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Source: theguardian.com