Exception reporting: It’s not just a right but a duty by Johann Malawana This piece was jointly produced for The Leadership Blog and BMJ Opinion The new (2016) junior doctors’ contract can be a very divisive topic among the medical profession. I would argue the reason for this is that the contract was seen by some as a possible panacea for all the problems that face the NHS. Exception reporting is a new mechanism that forms a core part of the new contract, and which was intro

A view from the other side… of Offa’s Dyke by Dafydd Loughran After the contract war comes the calm. In a funny way it’s a little bit uncomfortable, especially from the familiarity of a Cardiff operating theatre, which Twitter might call a #Huntfreezone. Suddenly, the distraction of noisy neighbours has passed. It makes one peek a little closer at the cobwebs and creaky floorboards of the NHS in Wales. Without clinical commissioning groups and the troubles of Health Education