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Camden News - by TOM FOOT
Published: 19 June 2008

UCL medic Claire Clapshaw joins the protest over free accommodation

Docs’ protest over accommodation

DOZENS of young medics protested outside University College London on Monday over plans to scrap free accommodation for junior doctors.
Around 100 UCL medics from the Royal Free and University College London Medical School joined the nationwide campaign, organised by the British Medical Association (BMA).
The doctors’ union claims the axing of free accommodation for first-year trainees amounts to a 20 per cent pay cut and is a cynical attempt to halt an explosion in applications for medical posts.
UCL medic Claire Clapshaw said: “Charging market-level prices for accommodation will make it more difficult for junior doctors who don’t have rich parents.”
UCLH and Royal Free are foundation trusts and neither has to accept to the government directive.
The move follows UCLH’s sale of nurses’ homes in Huntley Street.

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