Problems for NHS doctors serving in the reserve forces

Defence Medical Services - Question (House of Lords, 25 November 2009)

Lord Lee of Trafford (Liberal Democrat): Is the Minister aware that the BMA is reporting that an increasing number of health trusts are making life very difficult for their reserve doctors in fulfilling their training obligations and, indeed, are increasingly reluctant to recruit them in the first instance? Will she liaise with her opposite numbers in the Department of Health and make it clear to those health trusts that they have a national obligation at a time of war to release their reserve doctors for their appropriate military service? Those that refuse to do so should be named and shamed.

• Debate in full - Defence Medical Services
• British Medical Association Armed Forces Committee