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Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS's life - as the Tories try to silence ALL health workers

It's no coincidence that - just as junior doctors gear up for battle to prevent damaging NHS changes - the government is trying to make it virtually impossible for other health workers to do the same in future.

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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...”