BMA denies that 90% of junior doctor contract is agreed

Abstract

The chair of the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee has refuted a government claim that 90% of the junior doctor contract in England had been agreed. In February England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced that he would impose a new contract on junior doctors in England.1 On Wednesday 19 April Johann Malawana, chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, wrote to the health secretary and offered to call off an all-out strike planned for next week if the government abandoned its plan to impose the contract in August.2 In a letter in reply, sent on the same day, Hunt said that 90% of the contract had …