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Video: 'My job as health secretary is to do the right thing for the NHS, however difficult'

2016-03-30T00:01:00+01:00

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HSJ invited the health secretary to discuss the government’s health policy and his leadership with three senior healthcare figures.

Present were BMA council member and Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group chair Sir Sam Everington, Health Foundation chief executive Jennifer Dixon and Central and North West London Foundation Trust chief executive Claire Murdoch, as well as HSJ editor Alastair McLellan.

The third and final part of the conversation focused on the junior doctors’ contract, workforce morale and a range of related issues.

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