Justin Madders – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of staff retention in the NHS of his decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors.

Ben Gummer

Senior National Health Service leaders have advised that the new contract, 90% of which was agreed with the British Medical Association, will be fair and reasonable for doctors in training and for the service and will be safer for patients. We believe that this, and the fact that the new contract will better support training, will be clear to individual junior doctors from the details that have been sent to them all. The contract includes specific provisions to ensure recruitment and retention in hard-to-fill training programmes, and the groups to which this applies will be kept under review.