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Jeremy Hunt has been accused of prolonging the junior doctors’ dispute unnecessarily for three months after it could have been settled by putting personal “pride” before a resolution.
Labour’s Heidi Alexander claimed in the Commons that the health secretary had missed an opportunity to settle the bitter row by displaying a damaging “computer says no” attitude to talks.
Hunt and Alexander, the shadow health secretary, traded verbal blows during a House of Commons debate on Thursday on the new deal announced on Wednesday, which both Hunt and the British Medical Association (BMA) hope will end the nine-month dispute.
“What is now clear, if it wasn’t already, is that a negotiated agreement was possible all along. So I have to ask you, why couldn’t this deal have been struck in February? Why did you allow your pride back then to come before sensible compromise and constructive talks?” Alexander said.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...e-learned-lessons-from-junior-doctors-dispute
Labour’s Heidi Alexander claimed in the Commons that the health secretary had missed an opportunity to settle the bitter row by displaying a damaging “computer says no” attitude to talks.
Hunt and Alexander, the shadow health secretary, traded verbal blows during a House of Commons debate on Thursday on the new deal announced on Wednesday, which both Hunt and the British Medical Association (BMA) hope will end the nine-month dispute.
“What is now clear, if it wasn’t already, is that a negotiated agreement was possible all along. So I have to ask you, why couldn’t this deal have been struck in February? Why did you allow your pride back then to come before sensible compromise and constructive talks?” Alexander said.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...e-learned-lessons-from-junior-doctors-dispute