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The junior doctor protest

The junior doctor protest

Medicine and Science from The BMJ

October 21, 20157m 31s

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Show Notes

Thousands of NHS staff have demonstrated against the government’s threatened “imposition” of an “unsafe and unfair” contract for junior doctors. At a London rally on Saturday 17 October junior doctors and supporters noisily defended their trade union, as speakers accused England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of misleading the public about research evidence on weekend mortality rates in hospitals and the nature of contract negotiations. Matt Limb was there for the BMJ, finding out why junior doctors are so angry. Read more:

http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5572