Sir, I sympathise with the predicament of junior doctors (my own daughter is one such) given the steady erosion of their real pay over the past decade, but an immediate claim of 35 per cent is unrealistic and will not sit well with the rest of the population, who are also struggling. That issue ought to be addressed in the fullness of time, but meanwhile a useful part of the negotiations should be an immediate mitigation of the high burden of student debt that these young people are forced to carry for decades.
Henry Wyatt, Harrow Weald, Middx
Sir, In my emergency department in Sydney, more than two thirds of the resident, registrar and consultant doctors were trained in the NHS. If the British