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It is aimed at ensuring more junior doctors can work weekends and evenings.
"I believe that we need more junior doctors not fewer, we need to pay them more, we need to respect them and we need to train them".
Hunt maintains that enforcing the contract is necessary in order to let hospital bosses recruit more junior doctors to work at weekends and usher in the so-called seven-day NHS.
In the Commons on Thursday the Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a health minister until last year, told Hunt that, despite the deal, "many junior doctors remain concerned that, as the hours worked at the weekend increase, cover is inevitably reduced during the week, unless more junior doctors are employed to bridge that gap.
Neither the Department of Health nor the individual trusts have enforced the use of the best agreements and initiatives, so implementation of each strategy has been patchy and vast sums of money have been wasted taht could have been used to employ thousands more junior doctors or on other services.
Hunt said hospital management needed to be able to rota more junior doctors to work at the weekend and his goal of tackling higher death rates among patients admitted at the weekend meant that he had no choice but to impose such a drastic change to their working conditions.
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You work all these years without even running water in hospitals, and then you see a more junior doctor go into government and suddenly they're building a house and have a new car".
There are more junior hospital doctors in Ireland than there are Consultant posts for them to work towards, meaning that many posts do not offer a pathway to achieving consultancy.
While two speciality registrars – more experienced junior doctors – had turned up, none of the 10 other juniors had done so.
The relative absence of posts for the more senior junior doctors also means the experienced will be shunted into non-career posts, while inexperienced colleagues entering at a lower level will become the consultants of the future.
Many doctors in the UK, and probably elesewhere, are unhappy with their careers in medicine, with a fifth or more of junior doctors considering leaving medicine [ 1].
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