DH slammed for poor leadership on Modernising Medical Careers

The health select committee's report on Modernising Medical Careers has blamed the programme's problems on leadership weaknesses within the Department of Health.

British Medical Association chairman Hamish Meldrum said: "This is a damning indictment of the government's failure to listen. The medical profession's concerns were repeatedly and arrogantly disregarded, and thousands of junior doctors paid the price."

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