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The government has told hospital foundation trusts that they could lose funding for training programmes if they refuse to impose the new contract for junior doctors.
The threat comes in a letter from Health Education England, the Department of Health body responsible for education and training, to chief executives of NHS trusts in England. It states that decisions on awarding funding for training posts will hinge in part on whether a trust decided to rebel against Jeremy Hunt over the new national contract.
Last week, the health secretary announced that he would end protracted negotiations over changes to the junior doctors’ contract to facilitate weekend working by saying he would impose the new contract nationally from 1 August.
However, none of the 152 foundation trust hospitals in England, which are semi-independent, are legally obliged to force junior doctors to accept the junior contract, the Department of Health admitted last week.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...fuse-to-impose-new-contracts?CMP=share_btn_tw
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The threat comes in a letter from Health Education England, the Department of Health body responsible for education and training, to chief executives of NHS trusts in England. It states that decisions on awarding funding for training posts will hinge in part on whether a trust decided to rebel against Jeremy Hunt over the new national contract.
Last week, the health secretary announced that he would end protracted negotiations over changes to the junior doctors’ contract to facilitate weekend working by saying he would impose the new contract nationally from 1 August.
However, none of the 152 foundation trust hospitals in England, which are semi-independent, are legally obliged to force junior doctors to accept the junior contract, the Department of Health admitted last week.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...fuse-to-impose-new-contracts?CMP=share_btn_tw
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