Hospital B was ambitious in its action plan, with several junior doctor-led teaching and awareness raising events, an advertising campaign (T-shirts, radio adverts and pens) and three NAW stalls.
Other signatories include Dr Margaret McCartney, a prominent GP and an author, columnist and broadcaster on medical matters; Dr Phil Hammond, vice-president of the Patients Association; and several prominent junior doctors.
Another illustration of on-going problems was the observation that although expatriate doctors had been recruited successfully through the UN Volunteer Programme, in 2004/05 and 2005/06 less than eight medical graduates had joined the MoH whilst several other junior doctors had resigned [ 33].
Ministers' threat to impose a new contract has sparked widespread anger among junior doctors, several thousand of whom protested in Westminster on Monday evening after NHS Employers cancelled a meeting with them at Central Hall at a few hour's notice.
But it is hard to predict if this latest offer will avert a walkout as he has also decided not to budge on several key issues which have roused junior doctors' anger.
So far, 17,000 people have declared their support for junior doctors on Twitter along with several thousands more on Facebook, and the discussion has grown to include doctors and patients all over the region.
Some junior doctors and nurses agreed, however several were surprised that multidisciplinary guideline development would be undertaken and were unclear about the value of input from clinicians from other disciplines.
Several recent reports have highlighted inadequacies in training of junior doctors and raised similar concerns about standards of care in NHS hospitals.
Hunt wasn't in the chamber to appreciate the dig as he was at that moment – several months too late – coming to a deal with the junior doctors.
The academy was "disappointed at the prospect of further sustained industrial action by junior doctors", it said in a statement after several agonised hours of deliberation.
