Junior doctors are not prepared to accept changes to their contracts that would negatively affect patient care and doctors’ safety. In July, the health secretary attacked doctors’ professionalism and commitment to patients in a deliberate mischaracterisation of the care they and other NHS staff deliver to patients every day and night of the week. At the same time he gave doctors just eight weeks to agree to new negotiations on a potential new contract for junior doctors (Hospital consultants face ultimatum, 16 July). It has quickly become clear that the so-called negotiations on contracts for junior doctors offered by Jeremy Hunt do nothing to address our concerns and are instead an imposition in all but name. It is for this reason that junior doctors have rejected the UK government’s offer to re-enter negotiations.
By simply going along with a government hell-bent on getting something signed, sealed and delivered as quickly as possible, we would be letting down junior doctors and the patients for whom they care.
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