Labour demands inquiry into delayed payments to trainee GPs

Hundreds of doctors in England have not received salaries, according to BMA, as a result of errors by Capita

Labour is demanding an inquiry into how trainee GPs did not receive their salaries from a private firm that is meant to pay them on behalf of the NHS.

Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, has urged Jeremy Hunt to act after the Guardian disclosed that the delays had led to some family doctors being unable to pay their mortgage and having to seek help from a charity.

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