Clarification: Doc Their Pay

IN a leader column ‘Doc Their Pay’ about the junior doctors’ dispute, we
expressed the opinion that junior doctors were well paid compared to other
public sector workers and they ‘boost those salaries by dictating the amount
of overtime they work’.

In fact, although they can influence their rotas, they cannot choose what time
they work. We also stated that A&E patients are 16 per cent more likely
to die on a Sunday than a weekday.

In fact a BMJ paper concluded that patients ‘admitted’ on a weekend were more
likely to die within 30 days of admission than those admitted on a weekday.