Junior Doctors row: 98% vote to strike

[Daven]

In the private sector it happens all the time. Contract changes are common place. Why should the public sector be any different?

 

Plus the lack of high level medical care in our hospitals is currently putting peoples lives at risk. A 7 day NHS was one of the manifesto pledges of the government also.

 

There is not a lack of high level medical care in 'our' hospitals.

There already is a 7 day NHS.

[JFKvsNixon]

So now the Junior Doctors are upping the stakes for the public, by striking on emergency cover also now? disgusting! you are going against everything your profession is there for! 7 days operation of All depts is how it should be and that means All depts. most people work 7 days on a rota basis so why not you?

 

If the government wants the NHS to work fully seven days a week, it needs to hire the staff to work seven days a week. It's pretty simple. It's wrong to cut the workforces pay and conditions to meet that aim.

[Daven]

Hunt was on TV saying that he is willing to talk but they are not. Looks to me like a stalemate with neither side willing to budge from their stance. They have spent a long time talking and there appears little point in talks continuing.

 

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Find another job with a contract they can live with.

 

Hunt is a liar.

Who do you believe - a politician or a doctor ?

[Solomon1]

If they were in the private sector they'd been seen as an asset, an investment which needs to be protected

 

Totally agree

[Dubaidani13]

No No No what they are doing is trying to do is put a gun to the Governments head and use scare tactics so that the public will support them! the NHS must evolve and part of that is 7 day working, illness and disease doesn't keep to weekdays.

the NHS is so overstretched anyway with increasing immigrant population who use it as a doctors surgery its no wonder things have to change.

[JFKvsNixon]

Plus the lack of high level medical care in our hospitals is currently putting peoples lives at risk. A 7 day NHS was one of the manifesto pledges of the government also.

 

Nobody would have a problem with the NHS meeting this pledge as long as the government funded it correctly.

[Daven]

No No No what they are doing is trying to do is put a gun to the Governments head and use scare tactics so that the public will support them! the NHS must evolve and part of that is 7 day working, illness and disease doesn't keep to weekdays.

the NHS is so overstretched anyway with increasing immigrant population who use it as a doctors surgery its no wonder things have to change.

 

Here we go - downward spiral - dear God.

[Solomon1]

Hunt is a liar

 

That man has no soul

 

Unbelievable how he's managed to turn

 

An entire profession against him!

 

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Nobody would have a problem with the NHS meeting this pledge as long as the government funded it correctly.

 

Exactly

[Berberis]

Does it though?

 

How often in the private sector do you have a set of professionals who's talents are in much demand around the world, in an ever expanding market, with even more work being planned by their employers in the future, have their pay docked and expected to work longer hours?

 

If they were in the private sector they'd been seen as an asset, an investment which needs to be protected.

 

I have had minor contract changes throughout my career. I have also worked is businesses where very highly qualified and important people have also had changes. Maybe not as large a change as this one for the NHS but still changes. The thing is, junior doctors are not going to get their training elsewhere. Qualified doctors are the ones who have the opportunity to work the world over, but you can't hop on a plain and be trained as a doctor in Australia for example, they want qualified doctors. Junior doctors do not have the country over a barrel as much as they think.

[sutty27]

He's lying.

 

He has continuously refused to meet the BMA to discuss averting the strike.

 

And many junior doctors are doing exactly that sutty, quitting and taking their skills abroad, where they are paid considerably more for considerably less work.

How is that helping the NHS? Is this Jeremy's master plan, drive junior doctors out of the profession and create a staffing crisis? That certainly won't improve patient safety or make the magical 7 day week possible.

 

Do you have any evidence to support your opinion that he lied on TV.