Opposition request attorney general to intervene after health secretary fails to give conclusive reply to question about his legal apt to impose contract termsLabour has called on the attorney general to clear up the mounting confusion over whether the health secretary,Jeremy Hunt, has the power to impose a recent contract on junior doctors. Heidi Alexander, or the shadow health secretary,has written to Jeremy Wright asking him to clarify whether Hunt has the legal apt to force 45000 NHS trainee medics in England to accept recent terms and conditions, which have already prompted four strikes.
Hunt deepened the uncertainty over his legal powers in the Commons on Monday when he again said that he was “imposing” the contract, or even though both the government’s own lawyers and his department of health insist that he is merely playing a key role in its “introduction”.
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Source: theguardian.com