Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations Debate
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Norman Lamb
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Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations
Norman Lamb Excerpts(8 years, 9 months ago)
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Norman Lamb (North Norfolk) (LD)
Does the Minister ever wonder whether he has chosen the wrong target? He bases his entire argument on safety—and rightly so—yet chairs and chief executives of hospitals constantly tell me that they have no difficulty staffing their hospitals with junior doctors over weekends. At the same time, however, our GP out-of-hours services are under incredible strain and cover is threadbare in many parts of the country. That, surely, is where the real safety concerns lie.