The latest escalation in the row between the government and junior doctors could ’cause real problems for patients and the NHS’.
The government has agreed a deal with the BMA in the long-running dispute over the NHS junior doctors’ contract in England.
Junior doctors have begun their second all-out strike in England, walking out of routine and emergency care units in protest to Jeremy Hunt’s imposition of the new contract.
Jeremy Hunt has admitted that the first all-out junior doctors strike in the history of the NHS is a “bleak day”, but reiterated that the government would not back down over the imposition of the new contract.
Jeremy Hunt has refused a last ditch attempt to negotiate with the BMA and stop the two strikes planned for later this week.