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13 ‘Almost half of junior doctors reject NHS career after foundation training’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 05.12.15, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/04/almost-half-of-junior-doctors-left-nhs-after-foundation-training.
14 Shocking letter reveals the stress of being a midwife’, Paddy Shennan, The Liverpool Echo, 22.10.16, available at http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/health/shocking-letter-reveals-stress-being-12062284.
15 ‘NHS hospitals now so overwhelmed patients could die, says top doctor’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 10.03.16, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/10/nhs-hospitals-overwhelmed-patients-could-die-top-doctor.
16 ‘Hard Truths. The Journey to Putting Patients First. Volume One of the Government Response to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry’, Department of Health, January 2014, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/270368/34658_Cm_8777_Vol_1_accessible.pdf
17 ‘Five Year Forward View’, Department of Health, October 2014, available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf.
18 ‘Jeremy Hunt: Junior doctors have been misled by the BMA’, Jeremy Hunt, The Telegraph, 31.10.15, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11968014/Jeremy-Hunt-Junior-doctors-have-been-misled-by-the-BMA.html.
19 ‘Jeremy Hunt angers junior doctors by saying some are paid “danger money”’, Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 30.10.15, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/30/jeremy-hunt-angers-junior-doctors-by-saying-some-are-paid-danger-money.
20 ‘Moderate doctors must defeat the militants’, Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, 11.11.15, available (behind paywall) at http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4610596.ece.
21 ‘Jeremy Hunt offers junior doctors pay rise in bid to end dispute’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 03.11.15, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/nov/03/jeremy-hunt-offer-junior-doctors-pay-rise.
22 ‘The Conservative Party Manifesto 2015’, p. 38, March 2015, available at https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto.
23 ‘Nuffield Trust responds to “seven-day NHS”’, Nigel Edwards, The Nuffield Trust, 28.03.15, available at http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/nuffield-trust-responds-seven-day-nhs.
24 ‘No coherent attempt to assess headcount implications of 7-day NHS’, Public Accounts Committee, 11.05.16, available at https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/news-parliament-2015/nhs-staff-numbers-report-published-15-16/.
25 ‘The tragic naivety of immature junior doctors and their strike’, James Kirkup, The Telegraph, 25.04.16, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/25/the-tragic-naivety-of-immature-junior-doctors-and-their-strike/.
26 ‘Junior doctors are making a critical mistake’, Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 26.04.17, available (behind paywall) at http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/junior-doctors-are-making-a-critical-mistake-grp3cv9zl.
27 ‘BMA has marched doctors into a dead end’, Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, 07.09.16, available (behind paywall) at http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/incompetent-bma-has-led-doctors-astray-wjlhnstcq.
28 ‘Women Surgeon Statistics’, The Royal College of Surgeons, available at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/careers-in-surgery/women-in-surgery/mission-and-goals/women-surgeon-statistics/.
29 ‘The one sex change available on the NHS that nobody has been talking about’, Dominic Lawson, The Sunday Times, 17.01.17, available (behind paywall) at http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/dominiclawson/article1656813.ece.
30 ‘Always #LikeAGirl’. Always, 26.06.14, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs
31 ‘Like a lady doc’, British Medical Association, January 2016, available at https://storify.com/TheBMA/like-a-lady-doc
32 ‘Junior doctors hit out at column blaming the feminisation of NHS for causing out of hours crisis’, Caroline Mortimer, The Independent, 18.01.16, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/junior-doctors-hit-out-at-column-blaming-the-feminisation-of-nhs-for-causing-out-of-hours-crisis-a6817991.html.
33 Dagan Lonsdale, Twitter account, 17.01.16, available at https://twitter.com/daganlonsdale/status/688863469874077696.
34 ‘Prime Minister: My one nation government will close the gender pay gap’, Press release, Prime Minister’s Office, Number 10 Downing Street, 14.07.15, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-my-one-nation-government-will-close-the-gender-pay-gap.
35 ‘Junior doctors’ contract causes outrage as official report highlights “indirect adverse effect on women”’, Serina Sandhu, The Independent, 01.01.16, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/junior-doctors-contract-causes-outrage-as-official-report-highlights-indirect-adverse-effect-on-a6963146.html.
36 ‘RCS & RCP joint statement on publication of junior doctors’ contract and equality analysis’, The Royal College of Surgeons, 01.01.16, available at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-events/media-centre/press-releases/rcs-and-rcp-joint-statement-on-publication-of-junior-doctors-contract/
37 ‘Chair’s Update’, Maureen Baker, The Royal College of General Practitioners, April 2016, available at http://e.rcgp.org.uk/linkapp/cmaview.aspx?LinkID=pageid100264520znfrz~njrffjjt~xnrft~nqnrx9~z~x~f~f~n.
38 ‘Junior doctors outraged over new contract that “discriminates against single women”’, Charlie Cooper, The Independent, 01.01.16, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/junior-doc-tors-outraged-over-new-contract-that-discriminates-against-single-wom-en-a6963356.html.
39 ‘Jeremy Hunt’s junior doctors’ contract will “contradict UN women’s rights”, says WHO director’, Alexandra Sims, The Independent, 03.01.16, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-s-junior-doctors-contract-will-contradict-the-un-status-of-women-says-who-director-a6966756.html
40 ‘Doctors need “emotional resilience” training like soldiers in Afghanistan’, Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph, 29.08.15, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11787678/Doctors-need-emotional-resilience-training-like-soldiers-in-Afghanistan.html.
41 ‘NHS staff health & wellbeing: CQUIN supplementary guidance’, NHS England, 2016, available at www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/HWB-CQUIN-Guidance.pdf.
42 ‘£5million plan to improve the health of NHS staff’, NHS England, 02.09.15, available at www.england.nhs.uk/2015/09/improving-staff-health/
43 ‘The night shift in A&E: a hellish blur where my best is never enough’, Anonymous junior doctor, The Guardian, 20.10.16, available at https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2016/oct/20/night-shift-ae-hellish-hospital-beds-patients.
44 Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind, H. R. Knickerbocker, 1941 (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock), p. 96.
45 ‘In memory of Rose who we miss every day’, Heather Polge, JustGiving, available at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/HeatherPolge.
46 ‘Christmas No1 campaign for NHS choir wins nearly 100,000 fans in a week in rebuke to Jeremy Hunt’, Dan Bloom, The Mirror, 27.10.16, available at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/christmas-no1-campaign-nhs-choir-6715925.
47 ‘NHS choir: “I want to show how proud I am of the health service by getting our song to No 1”’, Sarah Johnson, The Guardian, 23.12.15, available at https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/dec/23/nhs-choir-no-1-bridge-over-you.
48 ‘Justin Bieber backs NHS Choir for Christmas number one.’ BBC News, 23.12.15, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35167996/justin-bieber-backs-nhs-choir-for-christmas-number-one.
49 ‘Jeremy Hunt pressures junior doctors to end strike’, Nicholas Watt and Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 12.01.16, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/12/jeremy-hunt-pressures-junior-doctors-to-end-strike.
50 “Video shows mo
ment Jeremy Hunt refuses to talk to junior doctor outraged at new contract’, Adam Withnall, The Independent, 11.02.16, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-literally-ignores-the-concerns-of-a-junior-doctor-confronting-him-inwestminster-a6867381.html.
51 ‘“I made Jeremy Hunt look like a rogue trader”, says TV ambush doctor’, Ross Lydall, The Evening Standard, 12.02.16, available at http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/i-made-jeremy-hunt-look-like-a-rogue-trader-says-tv-ambush-doctor-a3179146.html.
52 ‘Jeremy Hunt squirms as Andrew Marr reads letters from junior doctors’, Adam Withnall, The Independent, 07.02.16, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/jeremy-hunt-squirms-as-andrew-marr-reads-out-letters-from-junior-doctors-a6858921.html.
53 ‘Jeremy Hunt called “a liar and manipulator” by junior doctor Rachel Clarke during live BBC interview’, Chris York, The Huffington Post UK, 08.02.16, available at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/08/jeremy-hunt-junior-doctor_n_9185024.html.
54 ‘Junior doctors’ Facebook and Twitter campaigns “were partly to blame for talks on a new contracts breaking down”, according to Government negotiator’, James Dunn, Daily Mail, 13.02.16, available at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3445458/Junior-doctors-Facebook-Twitter-campaign-blame-talks-new-contracts-breakingaccording-Government-negotiator.html
55 ‘Leak reveals junior doctors’ plot to “draw out” contract dispute for 18 months and “tie government in knots”’, Henry Bodkin and Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph, 26.05.16, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/26/leak-reveals-junior-doctors-plot-to-draw-out-bitter-contract-dis/.
56 ‘Seven-day NHS “impossible under current funding levels”’, BBC News, 11.09.16, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37331350
57 ‘Five ways to improve support for junior doctors’, Sir Bruce Keogh, Health Service Journal, 29.07.16, available (behind paywall) at https://www.hsj.co.uk/sectors/acute-care/five-ways-to-improve-support-for-junior-doctors/7009576.article.
58 ‘GMC concerned about “state of unease” in medical profession’, General Medical Council, 27.10.16, available at http://www.gmc-uk.org/news/27482.asp.
59 https://fullfact.org/health/cost-training-doctor/
60 The History Boys, Alan Bennett, 2004 (Faber & Faber, London)
61 Sir Robert Francis publishes his report on whistleblowing in the NHS’, Freedom To Speak Up, 11.02.15, available at http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150218150343/https://freedomtospeakup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Press_release.pdf.
62 ‘Learning Not Blaming’, Department of Health, July 2015, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445640/Learning_not_blaming_acc.pdf.
63 ‘NHS patient safety fears as health watchdog scraps staffing guidelines’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 04.06.15, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/04/nhs-patient-safety-fears-nice-scrap-staffing-level-guidelines-mid-staffs-scandal.
64 ‘Is the NHS going to break in 2017?’ Nick Triggle, BBC News, 29.12.16, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38323184.
65 ‘“It was manic”: patients describe meltdown at Worcestershire hospital’, Steven Morris, The Guardian, 06.01.17, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/06/it-was-manic-patients-describe-meltdown-at-worcestershire-hospital.
66 ‘NHS faces “humanitarian crisis” as demand rises, British Red Cross warns’, Denis Campbell, Steven Morris and Sarah Marsh, The Guardian, 06.01.16, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/06/nhs-faces-humanitarian-crisis-rising-demand-british-red-cross.
67 ‘Baby boy forced to spend FIVE HOURS in A&E without a bed - THIS is what you’re doing to the NHS, Prime Minister.’ Ben Rossignton, The Mirror, 13.01.17, available at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartbreaking-picture-poorly-boy-2-9612899.
68 ‘Theresa May rejects claims of “humanitarian crisis” in NHS hospitals’, Katie Forster, The Independent, 08.01.17, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-nhs-humanitarian-crisis-sky-interview-hospitals-red-cross-justine-greening-jeremy-hunt-a7515801.html.
69 ‘Jeremy Hunt states only “one or two hospitals” are in trouble despite claims of humanitarian crisis’, Joe Watts, The Independent, 09.01.17, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-nhs-one-or-two-hospitals-trouble-halth-secretary-red-cross-humanitarian-crisis-a-and-e-a7516926.html.
70 ‘NHS accused of trying to spin its way out of trouble’, Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph, 10.01.17, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/06/crisis-crisis-nhs-accused-trying-spin-way-trouble/.
71 Chris Hopson, Twitter account, 06.01.17, available at https://twitter.com/ChrisCEOHopson/status/817486459968114689.
72 ‘Leak shows full extent of NHS winter crisis’, Faye Kirkland and Nick Triggle, BBC News, 10.01.17, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38570960.
73 ‘NHS crisis: 40% of hospitals issue alert in first week of new year’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 13.01.17, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/13/nhs-crisis-hospitals-issue-alert-first-week-january.
74 ‘Jeremy Hunt: NHS problems completely unacceptable’, Matthew Weaver, The Guardian, 10.02.17, available at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/10/jeremy-hunt-nhs-problems-completely-unacceptable.
75 ‘“The worst conditions in memory”: NHS doctors describe a week in A&E’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 08.01.17, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/08/an-absolute-warzone-nhs-doctors-describe-their-week-in-ae.
76 ‘Theresa May to tell GP surgeries to give patients appointments when they want them or face funding cuts’, Peter Dominiczak and Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph, 13.01.17, available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/13/theresa-may-tell-gp-surgeries-give-patients-appointments-want/.
77 ‘The doctor WON'T see you now: Mail names and shames some of the thousands of GP surgeries shutting up shop in the afternoon’, Sophie Borland and Ben Wilkinson, Daily Mail, 11.01.17, available at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4111188/The-doctor-WON-T-Mail-names-shames-thousands-GP-surgeries-shutting-shop-afternoon.html.
78 ‘Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund: Improving Access to General Practice First Evaluation Report: October 2015’, NHS England, October 2015, available at https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/pmcf-wv-one-eval-report.pdf.
79 ‘AA Gill: “More life with your kids, more life with your friends, more life spent on earth – but only if you pay”’, A.A. Gill, The Sunday Times, 11.12.16, available at http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-life-with-your-kids-more-life-with-your-friends-more-life-spent-on-earth-but-only-if-you-pay-d7lwpht3j.
80 ‘Universal Healthcare without the NHS’, Kristian Niemietz, Institute of Economic Affairs, 2016, available at https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Niemietz-NHS-Interactive.pdf.
81 ‘NHS: UK now has one of worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report’, Paul Gallagher, The Independent, 04.11.15, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-uk-now-has-one-of-the-worst-healthcare-systems-in-the-developed-world-according-to-oecd-report-a6721401.html.
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84 Jeremy Hunt’s speech to Conservative Party Conference 2016, available at http://press.conservatives.com/post/151337276050/hunt-speech-to-conservative-party-conference-2016
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87 ‘NHS “waving white flag” as it axes 18-week waiting time operation target’, Denis Campbell, The Guardian, 31.03.17, available at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/31/nhs-surgery-target-operations-can-celled-simon-stevens.
88 ‘Patients fear NHS group may axe cataract surgery’, Sarah-Kate Templeton, The Times, 09.04.27, available at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/arti-cle/patients-fear-nhs-group-may-axe-cataract-surgery-95d8vsj26.
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