- Many junior doctors are helping to interview candidates for a new post
- But British Medical Association is preparing strikes before Christmas
Sophie Borland Health Editor For The Daily Mail
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Junior doctors across England are defying their union by helping NHS managers introduce the new contracts.
Many have been helping to interview candidates for a new post that is meant to ensure they only work a safe number of hours.
But the British Medical Association is preparing to stage a wave of five-day strikes before Christmas, the worst such action in the NHS’s history.
Junior doctors across England are defying their union by helping NHS managers introduce the new contracts
And later today a group of junior doctors called Justice for Health is taking the Health Secretary to court arguing that he is imposing the contract illegally.
They will seek to overthrow the deal in the Court of Appeal by claiming that Jeremy Hunt has no power to force the terms on 55,000 doctors without seeking consultation.
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But NHS Improvement, the organisation which oversees all hospitals, claims many junior doctors are quietly helping introduce the contract.
It is due to be introduced gradually from next month but hospitals have already had to make preparations for the new terms.
But the British Medical Association is preparing to stage a wave of five-day strikes before Christmas. Pictured is Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
These include the appointment of Guardians of Safe Working – a full-time role set out in the contract to oversee junior doctors’ wellbeing and working hours.
Kathy McLean, executive medical director of NHS Improvement, said junior doctors had been helping to interview candidates for the role – usually senior doctors or managers.
She added: ‘At some places they definitely are having that collaboration. That will be a bit variable across the country.
‘However, sufficient junior doctors are involved to help make this as good as possible.’
She could not specify how many doctors had been helping but it is further evidence of a mutiny against the strikes.
Thousands of junior doctors are expected to boycott the walkouts because they believe the action is a step too far – and they cannot afford to lose so much money.
The first five- day stoppage is due to start on October 5.
Dr Ellen McCourt, chairman of the BMA’s junior doctor committee, said: ‘Junior doctors feel they have been left with no choice.’
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