Junior Doctors: Contract Debate
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Lord Ribeiro
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Junior Doctors: Contract
Lord Ribeiro Excerpts(8 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Prior of Brampton
My Lords, we now have a pause for five days. This is not dogma; we have two parties who have different views about a small part—about 10%—of the existing contract. Over the next five days we have a chance to resolve that.
Lord Ribeiro (Con)
My Lords, while the whole House welcomes this pause, I hope that, whatever happens, there will be an opportunity for an independent review to look at the very points that were made earlier about the lack of appreciation of and support for junior doctors. If there is one thing last week’s dispute has shown, it is that when consultants man the front door of a hospital, services are very much better. Will the Government consider having an independent review after this dispute to look at the future workforce?