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Written question asked by Paula Sherriff (Labour) on Friday, 8 April 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 12 April 2016. It was answered by Ben Gummer (Conservative) on Monday, 18 April 2016 on behalf of the Department of Health.


Junior Doctors: Conditions of Employment

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the new junior doctor contract on recruitment to acute medicine.

Answer

Medicine is an extremely popular career choice and we expect that to continue.

The new contract for doctors in training will have a positive impact on the working life of doctors and on the training they receive. It introduces stronger safeguards to ensure doctors are not required to work long, unsafe hours, enforced through contractual obligations on employers and external scrutiny of those hours by the Care Quality Commission and the independent Guardian of safe working hours.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
33070
Session
2015-16
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Conditions of employment Resident doctors Recruitment
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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