Images: Health workers striking in 2014. Rights: Roger Blackwell/Flickr.
Jeremy Hunt has vaulted over the BMA to write directly to every “Junior” Doctor about the government’s attempt to impose a new contract, dangling an 11% rise in basic pay.
Junior doctors (any doctor who is not a GP or a Consultant, whatever their age or experience), have responded furiously to Hunt's bypassing their union and to his blatant spin. BMA junior doctors’ committee chairman, Johann Malawana, declared: “In short, there is nothing new in what the government is putting forward. That is why our decision to ballot our members still stands...”
