Issue 92 Friday 12 Februrary 2016
2016 Ones to Watch Music look at the artists to watch in 2016 and predict the shining stars over the next year MUSIC P32
New Year, New Room Features looked at how to decorate your halls this New Year to brighten things up FEATURES P18
Review: Dad’s Army The new Dad’s Army film is described as “very enjoyable if slightly creaky” SCREEN P39
Hallam Snatch Varsity Point Hallam take half of the Winter Varsity points in Tignes in a dramatic turn of events SPORT P48
DOCTORS DAMNED DESPITE PROTESTS
Lisa Latham Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that his new contract imposing longer working hours and lower pay on junior doctors will be forced forward and become affective from August 1 2016. The decision was finalised following months of
negotiations with the British Medical Association that failed to produce a settlement. Hunt argues that the implementation of the contract is crucial in achieving a seven-day NHS by 2020, a key pledge of the government’s manifesto, and in reducing risk of patient death with more weekend staff. The initial preposition of the
contract in September 2014 has since sparked several nationwide strikes with the doctors’ union claiming that an increase in working hours could lead to overexertion in junior doctors and compromise the welfare of patients. On Wednesday 10 February almost 3,000 minor hospital operations were cancelled across the UK due to a
second 24 hour doctor strike. Sheffield’s student doctors and medics gathered on Weston Bank road to protest against the unfair and unsafe conditions they say the terms of the new contract will create. When asked about the implications of the contract, Continued on page 7....