Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has told a medical conference that the pay and conditions offer to junior doctors is "a pretty good and reasonable offer." The Resident Doctors Association called off a strike scheduled for next week due to the Kaikoura earthquake. I think the DHBs are making a pretty good and reasonable offer and I'm very hopeful that we can get this settled. Dr Coleman told the conference that "we're working through the negotiations around that; we're very keen to see that progress." But Dr Coleman said the contract with the six DHBs represented a saving of $30 million and, "that's a lot of money that's going to be going back to frontline services."

Source: Otago Daily Times November 17, 2016 07:01 UTC