Daily Mail

Legal battle over doctors’ breaks

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A LABOUR activist is at the heart of a High Court battle over rest breaks for junior doctors which could cost the NHS millions.

Dr Sarah Hallett claims patients are being put at risk because NHS trusts are failing to ensure trainees take breaks.

She is also bringing her test case on behalf of 20 other doctors who trained with her at the Royal Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. If she wins, the trust could have to pay £250,000 to her and her fellow trainees for breaks missed.

NHS lawyers say the floodgates would open to similar claims by doctors at other NHS hospitals. Dr Hallett identified herself as a Labour Party member when she signed a letter organised by Momentum’s NHS group in 2016 against NHS privatisat­ion. The case continues.

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