Heidi Alexander MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to figures showing an increase in doctors registering to work overseas following the Government’s decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors, said:

“These worrying figures are yet another sign of how demoralised NHS staff have become under the Tories.

"It now seems that the Government’s plan to impose a new contract on junior doctors is a real risk to patient care.

"The new contract must be fair and safe. Unless the Government addresses these concerns then it will be patients who suffer.”