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The head of the junior doctors’ committee, Dr Ellen McCourt, has assured the press that the group’s decision to call five-day doctor strikes, which were then abandoned, was not a mistake because the junior doctors still have “a range of options” open to them to oppose the new contract. Discussing the new contract for medics to be implemented from October 5, she alleged that every trainee would have to make their own decision on whether to sign the contract from next week. However, she also warned at the same time that patient safety may be put at risk due to its terms.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt recently won a High Court fight with the campaign group, Justice for Health, which had claimed that Mr Hunt acted beyond the scope of his powers by compelling NHS employers to adopt the new deal. However, Mr Hunt claimed that the complaint was without substance because Mr Justice Green agreed that the minister had approved the contract but had not compelled employers to adopt it. Thereafter, The British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee announced to cancel its series of five-day strikes planned for the run-up to Christmas after NHS England said the health service would not be able to cope with the scale of the industrial action.
In her remarks, Dr McCourt has now stated that “the BMA has not accepted the contract, we remain in dispute around the contract. There are still several outstanding concerns.” She explained that “we are looking at a variety of other options – we have not yet released those to our members – but what we need to do is find ways of challenging this at a more local level and using a variety of different methods. We’re still looking into them.”
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