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Parliament to neglect promised debate on Jeremy Hunt's removal
A debate is due to be held on 14 September, but will not be held in the main chamber of the House of Commons. Instead it will take place in the Westminster Hall venue, with the debate focusing on ‘the e-petition relating to contracts and conditions in the NHS’.
The Parliament.uk petition, headlined ‘To debate a vote of no confidence in health secretary the Right Hon Jeremy Hunt’, argued that ‘Jeremy Hunt has alienated the entire workforce of the NHS by threatening to impose a harsh contract and conditions on first consultants and soon the rest of the NHS staff’.
The petitions were originally launched following a speech where Hunt said he would impose weekend working in the consultant contract to end high payments to fill shifts.
It also followed closely Mr Hunt’s announcement of the ‘new deal’ for general practice, which would see GPs accept seven-day working in return for support for struggling practices but was later denounced by the BMA as threatening the existence of the profession.
The Commons Petitions Committee said it had reviewed the petition, as well as a similarly worded call on Change.org that received more than 100,000 signatures.
It follows the Government’s response, published on the petition page, that focused on the merits of a seven-day NHS and not on Mr Hunt.
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