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THE number of junior doctors applying to train in Scotland has dramatically increased, amid claims the SNP government enjoys better relations with the medical profession than Tory ministers.
There was a 27 per cent rise in the number of foundation-level doctors sending applications to train in the Scottish health service for 2016-17, new figures from NHS Education Scotland show.
The surge in the number of medics wanting to work in Scotland comes after the UK Government became locked in a bitter dispute with junior doctors in England. The row led to a series of strikes, including the first-ever full walk-out by doctors.
The UK’s Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was heavily criticised during the long-running dispute over the imposition of a new junior doctors’ contract in England, which the British Medical Association claimed would have left juniors up to 30 per cent worse off.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/su...land-after-contracts-dispute-in-england.19542
There was a 27 per cent rise in the number of foundation-level doctors sending applications to train in the Scottish health service for 2016-17, new figures from NHS Education Scotland show.
The surge in the number of medics wanting to work in Scotland comes after the UK Government became locked in a bitter dispute with junior doctors in England. The row led to a series of strikes, including the first-ever full walk-out by doctors.
The UK’s Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was heavily criticised during the long-running dispute over the imposition of a new junior doctors’ contract in England, which the British Medical Association claimed would have left juniors up to 30 per cent worse off.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/su...land-after-contracts-dispute-in-england.19542
