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NHS SOS—challenging the junior doctors’ contracts

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Published on: 06 October 2015

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To what extent can the Department of Health take unilateral action to impose new contracts on junior doctors?
Has the creation of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and other structural changes given NHS trusts any scope to offer different contract terms?
Can doctors go on strike? To what extent would health trusts/central government be liable for any damage to health as a result of strike action?
Could the new contracts be challenged in the courts? If so, on what grounds?

Article summary

Employment analysis: The Department of Health’s new junior doctors’ contract is causing a backlash among the medical profession. Nigel Brockley, barrister at No5 Chambers, considers the ramifications of this contract change.

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