Less training burden, fewer pay errors and more rota flexibility: new trainee workforce pledges explained

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By Ellie Philpotts

NHS England has made new pledges to improve the working lives of doctors in training. But what does this mean in practice for the country’s 75,000 trainees - and do the changes go far enough?

The latest promise of cultural reform came soon after hospital doctors lost their ability to sign up to the free mental health service Practitioner Health - a decision NHS England hastily reversed following criticism.