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Fresh talks planned for junior doctors’ contracts
The government and the British Medical Association (BMA) will meet to discuss ending the dispute over a new contract for junior doctors in England.
Plans to impose the contract and further industrial action have been suspended on both sides, with negotiations being mediated by conciliation service Acas.
To date, junior doctors have held four strikes against the plans, affecting hospital routines across the country, with the most recent strikes affecting all forms of care, including emergencies - the first strike of its kind in the history of the NHS.
In a untimely blow for the government and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, researchers from Oxford University have claimed that earlier findings backing the government's push for a seven-day NHS in England, that being patent safety, are based on flawed data.
The new Oxford University paper concludes that hospital data suggesting a ‘weekend effect’, where death rates are higher for those admitted over the weekend period, are deeply flawed. This has been one of the government’s main arguments in favour of a seven-day NHS.
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