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Jeremy Hunt goes nuclear - the 12 things you need to know

Jeremy Hunt's decision to impose a contract makes as little sense as the rest of his narrative about the junior doctors and a '7 day NHS' - unless you unpick the real story.

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has gone nuclear and yesterday announced that he will forcibly impose his new contract on junior doctors.

Why? His story goes something like this:

“People have less good care at weekends in hospital, because junior doctors are not available. We should have a seven day NHS. We need more junior doctors on weekends but we can't pay for this, so we will need to make it cheaper. We have to impose a contract to do this.”