§ Mr. Penhaligonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if she will set out a table in the Official Report showing the effects, on different grades of doctors, of the new scales of remuneration recently announced.
(2) if there are any hospital doctors who would receive less remuneration for hours worked than previously under the recently announced new contracts;
(3) if she will consider the introduction of a no-detriment clause in the proposed new hospital doctors' contracts.
§ Dr. OwenI refer the hon. Member to paragraphs 15–23 of the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body Report published on 18th September (Cmnd. 6243). The recommendations in the report of the Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body on the pricing of new contracts for junior hospital doctors and dentists are not yet accepted by the professions, in spite of a decision on 3rd October by the representatives of the Hospital Junior Staff Committee reluctantly to accept the report and to recommend junior doctors to enter into new contracts on the basis of it.