It seems the government has won its "red lines". So it looks like this deal won't protect junior doctors or patients, and will hasten NHS privatisation. Doctors need the public to fight alongside us, more than ever.
The BMA and the government have reached a provisional agreement over the junior doctor contract dispute. The contract will be published at the end of this month. It will then be submitted to a ballot of 45,000 junior doctors.
This ballot – or ‘referendum’ - is in fact non-binding. The BMA’s Junior Doctor Committee will take an executive decision regardless of the result.
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