UK: Junior doctors slam Jeremey Hunt as new contract is imposed

Junior doctors protested in London, Thursday as the UK’s Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that a new contract would be imposed upon junior doctors in spite of strikes and demonstrations against it. On Thursday evening, over 1,000 doctors and their supporters took to the streets of England’s capital city to protest this decision.
According to calculations by the British Medical Association (BMA), the new contract will impose longer working hours on junior doctors that will effectively result in a pay cut.
As well as the salary reductions, experts and health professions have expressed concern that longer hours will overstretch junior doctors and therefore put patients at risk.