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Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) from South Warwickshire Foundation Trust (SWFT) will join junior doctors across the country in only providing emergency care for 24 hours starting from 8am on Wednesday February 10.

Ms Robison said: “These videos feature the real-life experiences of junior doctors who are working and training in our NHS right now”.

“In the a year ago, the Health Secretary has implied that doctors don’t work at weekends, he’s insinuated that juniors are somehow to blame for deaths amongst patients admitted on Saturdays and Sundays and he’s insulted the profession’s intelligence by telling them they’ve been misled by the BMA”.

Yesterday, Mr Hunt used an appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show to accuse the BMA of behaving in a “totally irresponsible way” and “spreading misinformation” about the proposed junior doctors’ deal.

“In the end, if you’re going to ask more doctors to work at weekends you are going to have to pay more, but in order to be able to afford that we do need to reduce the premiums that we pay at weekends and make up for it with an increase in base pay”, he said.

Totnes MP and health committee chairman Dr Sarah Wollaston also took part in the debate, asking health ministers for reassurance that they will tackle “excessive” hours.

WITH picket lines expected outside the region’s major hospitals this week, a leading North-east consultant has called on the Health Secretary to rethink his approach to the junior doctors dispute.

She told Sky News’s Murnaghan programme: “I can understand the anger and frustration of the junior doctors in this whole dispute and I think they feel as if they have got no other option about getting their point across”.

‘”If we are stretched even more thinly over seven days I’m certain patients are going to die”.

But SWFT bosses say they are once again trying to keep disruption to a minimum. “What I am saying is rather than cancelling more operations, come and talk”.

“Expanding on this to the IB Times UK, he said accused the health secretary of “Mr Hunt deliberately and knowingly” misquoting and misinterpreting” the conclusions of medical research about weekend mortality.

Discussing his health reforms, Hunt argued that the hostile reception he has received from both the public and NHS staff over the junior doctor contracts is perfectly normal. “Such a decision on your part could lead to protracted industrial action and widespread anger among other NHS staff at a time when morale is already at rock bottom”.

The BMA said its door was open to talks and blamed the strikes on Mr Hunt’s “shambolic mishandling” of the matter.