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Grant junior doctors the same maternity/paternity rights as other employees

Submitted on Tuesday 6th March 2018

Published on Wednesday 14th March 2018

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 14th September 2018

Signatures: 478

Tagged with

Law ~ Miles ~ NHS ~ UK

Petition Action

Grant junior doctors the same maternity/paternity rights as other employees

Petition Details

The junior doctor contract allows doctors on mat leave to be moved to a different hospital, risking being placed 100s of miles from their old job, with insufficient warning for childcare planning and despite vacancies in their previous hospital. Other professions are protected from this by UK law.

Additional Information

Junior doctors taking maternity leave are having the location of their employment changed drastically on returning to work, often making it unfeasible to continue training. Morale is already low and this can cause added stress and anxiety to doctors with young families. There is a staffing crisis across the NHS and so it would be in the public's interest to close this loophole and allow junior doctors the same parental rights as other employees, to increase junior doctor retention in the NHS.


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