Junior Doctors: Contract Debate
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Lord Watts
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Junior Doctors: Contract
Lord Watts Excerpts(8 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Prior of Brampton
No; the noble Lord has misunderstood the contract. The number of hours are coming down, not going up.
Lord Watts (Lab)
My Lords, the Government are pursuing a policy which is not evidence-based and is driven by dogma. Would it not be better to seek arbitration to get us out of the mess they have got us into?
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.