NHS bodies should work to improve relations between junior doctors and government, Keogh says

NHS organisations should improve junior doctors’ working and training conditions to try to repair relations between the profession and the government, NHS England’s national medical director has said. Speaking at an evidence session of the parliamentary health committee on 19 July, Bruce Keogh told MPs that he wanted to help change the bad feeling between the two parties. Relations have been strained because of the recent industrial dispute over a new contract for junior doctors in England, which led to a full strike by BMA junior doctor members in April.1 The new contract, which will be imposed …