The Rt Revd Peter Forster, Bishop of Chester, said the Government's proposed changes to junior doctors' contracts are a good thing, but the Government has gone about implementing the changes the wrong way, particularly given the amount of stress medics are under. He was speaking as junior doctors walked out for a second time in less than four weeks over the potential changes to pay and conditions. Bishop Peter said, ‘It isn't just the hours. It's the way they oscillate from days to nights to unsocial hours, sometimes ten, twelve hours at a go, maybe with relatively few senior doctors in the hospital overnight. People who work in that sort of way need handling with considerable care and quite frankly kid gloves. I think the Government tried to make well-meaning changes thinking that the argument was on their side, without properly stopping to take people along with them.’ Since he spoke, the Government has decided to impose its proposals on the junior doctors, which is likely to cause even more aggravation.