Health secretary won’t hold peace talks with BMA’s junior doctors committee without his precondition accepted
Junior doctors’ leaders are split over whether to accept a precondition demanded by Jeremy Hunt in order to begin peace talks aimed at ending their bitter contractual dispute.
The health secretary has demanded that the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee (JDC) agrees in writing to discuss whether Saturdays should become part of a junior doctor’s normal working week as he agreed in principle to holding new talks following a plea from the medical royal colleges for a truce.
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