BMJ 2002;325:1047-1048 ( 9 November )

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Take back your mink, take back your pearls

Rejection of the consultant contract starts a new era

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"Take back your mink, take back your pearls

What made you think that I was one of those girls?"

From the musical Guys and Dolls   

English and Welsh consultants last week rejected the new consultant contract by two to one.¹ Specialist registrars, the consultants of the future, rejected it by more than five to one. But consultants from Scotland and Northern Ireland voted for the contract, hastening the pace of devolution. The contract had been negotiated over two years and endorsed by the BMA's central consultants and specialists committee. Peter Hawker, chairman of the committee, resigned when the vote was announced. The resounding rejection of the contract in England and Wales raises difficult questions for the NHS, the government, and the BMA and probably starts a new era of local negotiation and possibly of a junior consultant grade.

Why was the contract rejected?

In essence, the new contract offered . . . [Full text of this article]

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