Friday 24 June 2016

BMA: Junior doctors' strikes significantly improved Hunt deal

BMA: Junior doctors' strikes significantly improved Hunt deal Johann Malawana tells annual conference that strikes led to recognition of weekend work, fair pay and safeguarding of hours.

Strike action by junior doctors had forced “significant improvements” to the government’s proposed changes to their NHS contracts, the medics’ leader has said.

Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said trainee medics would have had “completely unacceptable proposals” imposed on them by the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, if they had not staged walkouts. They included the first all-out strikes by doctors in the NHS’s history. Continue reading... The Guardian

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