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There is also division over how to stop hospitals forcing doctors to work dangerously long hours.
"This contract is not safe; it's going to remove the safeguards that prevent them [junior doctors] working dangerously long hours," she said.
The doctors' union, the British Medical Association, argues that the proposed changes amount to a pay cut for some staff and would result in doctors working dangerously long shifts.
The biggest threat to patient care is the Government's insistence on removing safeguards which prevent junior doctors from being forced to work dangerously long hours without breaks, with patients facing the prospect of being treated by exhausted doctors".
The British Medical Association BMAA) has argued that the changes will make doctors work "dangerously long hours" and effectively cut their pay, and warned that enforcing them could prompt an exodus of young doctors from England's NHS.
The deal to avert the strikes states that a new way will be found to ensure that junior doctors do not end up working dangerously long hours – another key area of concern for the BMA.
The BMA says the new contract will jeopardise patient care as it will remove safeguards preventing junior doctors from having to work dangerously long hours, and will also adversely affect pay and morale.
The BMA has said it is still possible next week's strike could be called off, but the union is seeking further concessions from the Government on the two key points of disagreement – out-of-hours pay and safeguards to protect doctors from working dangerously long hours.
The areas of disagreement include: plans by Hunt to scrap the system of automatic annual pay rises for junior doctors; hospitals forcing them to work dangerously long hours; and the demarcation of the periods of the week for which they receive only basic pay for working rather than to overtime.
It went on to argue that the biggest threat to patient care was the government's insistence on removing safeguards that prevent 45,000 junior doctors from being forced to work dangerously long hours without breaks, with patients facing the prospect of being treated by exhausted doctors.
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