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Lots of interesting news came for doctors this week in the form of the Budget and also an announcement from NHS England. Jeremy Hunt, the current chancellor of the Exchequer who is control of the countries finances, was previously the infamous health secretary who battled the junior doctors back in 2016. Since then though, he has claimed that he more sympathetic to doctors and has claimed that he will solve the NHS pension issue for high-earning doctors. Well in this announcement on the 15th March has gone some way to solving it.

With the whole NHS seemingly crumbling, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that primary care was valiantly holding up a failing system. Emergency departments with long waiting times, paramedics, physiotherapists and nurses striking, junior doctors likely going to strike, waiting times for elective procedures at all time highs - there is only so much this system can take.