Junior doctors' row: NHS chiefs speak out over letter

[Northerner]

Some NHS bosses have distanced themselves from suggestions they backed a new junior doctors contract being imposed, after their names were linked to a letter used to justify the move.

Names of 20 chief executives appeared on a letter from the government's chief negotiator, advising it to do "whatever it deems necessary" to end the row.

On Thursday, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a contract would be imposed.

But 10 of the letter's signatories say they do not support the decision.

Ministers took the decision to impose the contract in England after their mediator Sir David Dalton advised them a negotiated outcome "no longer seems possible".

In his letter to Mr Hunt, Sir David said the recommendation "to make sure that a new contract is in place" was supported by "chief executives across the country", and supplied 20 names.

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More spin exposed

 

[AlisonM]

"Ministers took the decision to impose the contract in England after their mediator Sir David Dalton advised them a negotiated outcome "no longer seems possible"."

This is a very telling sentence, especially the phrase "their mediator". Mediators are supposed to be neutral, but how could he be if he was "their mediator"? Something rotten in the state of Denmark?