Doctors Contract Pilot Urged To End Strikes

The Labour Party has put forward proposals they hope could prevent next week's planned junior doctors' strike. Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander is calling on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to trial the proposed new contracts at a number of NHS trusts and to set up an independent study into the impact. In a letter Ms Alexander says that the evaluation would include "an audit of mortality cases to identify the cause of death and whether it could have been avoided".