Junior doctors reject contract offer

[muriel_volestrangler]

NHS junior doctors have voted to reject the government’s final offer on their new contract, despite weeks of talks to try to broker a settlement.

Almost six in 10 junior doctors and medical students (58%) working in England who belong to the British Medical Association refused to accept the deal, with only 42% endorsing it.

About 37,000 BMA members, or 68% of the 54,000 trainee doctors and final- and penultimate-year medical students who were eligible to vote, took part in the ballot, which closed on Friday.

Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the BMA’s junior doctors committee (JDC), who had recommended the revised terms and conditions as the best settlement junior doctors could get, resigned from his position after the results were announced.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/05/junior-doctors-reject-contract-offer

[Ghost Dog]

1. If this is the crux of the problem:

“The plan to increase the number of hours worked at the weekend, without ensuring that sufficient junior doctors are recruited and trained in the short term, would inevitably have meant that cover was reduced during the week. This would have a disastrous impact on patient safety at a time when many weekday rotas around the country are already left unfilled.”

... why aren't sufficient junior doctors being recruited and trained?