Why has it rained on the doctors’ parade?
Why has the doctors’ industrial action turned into a damp squib, asks Victoria MacDonald.
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“When we contacted both those organisations, they distanced themselves from the claim, saying they had never made any assessment of how many homes are sold each year to finance healthcare.”
“The strange picture being painted for us is one of the biggest bureacratic machines in Whitehall being taken by surprise by its own success in making efficiency savings, and choosing to hand the extra cash back to the Treasury.”
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Why has the doctors’ industrial action turned into a damp squib, asks Victoria MacDonald.
As doctors stage industrial action for the first time in 40 years, Channel 4 News asks if the move has lost them goodwill?
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“He’s also right that overall clinical staff levels have risen…but only if you choose your time frame carefully.”
Jeremy Hunt’s defence must be that it wasn’t him that was in direct contact with the Murdoch team but his Special Adviser Adam Smith and the Mr Smith wasn’t representing his real thoughts.