Doctors meet on talks’ breakdown
Junior doctors throughout New Zealand are meeting this week to discuss the recent breakdown in their negotiations with the Health Department over working conditions. The convener of the national negotiating committee of the Resident Medical Officers’ Association, Dr Jeremy Cooper, said last evening that the urgent meeting with the Minister of Health, Dr Bas-
sett, over the breakdown of talks last week, would be held soon. “We have asked members up and down the country to meet to assess the local feeling about the talks,” he said. “We want to tell them exactly what happened at the breakdown — the Health Department’s proposals and why we thought it was so bad that we decided to break off talks,”
he said. Already doctors in Palmerston North had shown they were angry about the Health Department’s proposals. Junior doctors in Auckland and Christchurch would meet today to discuss the breakdown, he said. Dr Cooper said that when the committee met Dr Bassett it wanted to have a strong presentation from all doctors.
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