Only a handful of NHS consultants across the country opt-out of weekend working, despite Jeremy Hunt’s claim the lack of weekend working puts lives at risk.

Consultants are entitled to opt out of performing non-emergency work at weekends – an option the Health Secretary wants to remove.

Reported by the Mirror. You can read the full story here. 

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.