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Junior Doctors: Industrial Action

My Lords, the origins of this dispute and lack of trust go back many years, to the end of the old, firm structure. Many junior doctors feel a lack of support. It is easy to lob bricks at the Government, but the senior doctors and the Royal Colleges need to look at themselves pretty carefully and pretty hard in the mirror because they have some responsibility for this as well. I hope they will be very much part of working through some of these non-contractual issues, along the lines my noble friend suggested.