Shropshire doctor slams imposition of contract by Jeremy Hunt
A hospital doctor from Shropshire has accused the Government of being "removed from the people" as it plans to impose a controversial new contract on junior medics.
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Dr Faraaz Bhatti, a registrar in emergency medicine from Telford, accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of putting party politics before the public in pressing ahead with the contract, which will end extra payments for working on a Saturday.
The Government had drafted in Sir David Dalton, chief executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, to broker a deal with the British Medical Association, but the deadlock could not be broken.
