Junior Doctors Strike - your views
Watch this postDo not support the proposed strike, at all - and would like to hear more from those poor people who will have their long awaited operations and appointments cancelled. Not one person on the news this morning, apart from Jeremy Hunt, mentioned how awful this strike will be for the people they are supposed to be caring for.
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The NHS has always been the 'flagship' of the welfare state but in recent years it has been put under immense pressure by having to treat smokers, drinkers, drug users, foreign health tourists and asylum seekers who bring 'exotic' diseases with the.
Clearly this trend cannot be allowed to continue or the beloved service will collapse dramatically with catastrophic implications for patient care.
Pay the juniors what they are worth, the NHS cannot function without them; train BRITISH young people to become doctors, rather than concentrating on foreign students who pay higher fees.
Levy a small charge to see a GP, say £5.00. Charge patients £10.00 for a minor surgery and £25.00 for major surgery and charge all patients for their meals while in hospital.
Sort out the procurement scandal, where the NHS contracts to pay significantly higher prices for drugs, consumables and everyday essentials.
Weed out unnecessary managers and administrators...and DO NOT then re-employ them as 'consultants.'
The NHS and I are the same age, I have often wondered, who will die first?
The new contract says that doctors can work no more than 72 hours over seven consecutive days, down from 91 hours in the current contract. They should also only work an average of 48 hours per week, unless they opt out of the Working Time Regulations in which case the maximum is 56 hours. This is down from a current cap of 56 hours.
The new contract also reduces the number of long days a doctor can be asked to work from seven to five and the number of consecutive nights they can work from seven to four. According to the BMA, the old contracts allowed junior doctors to take a break every four hours for 30 minutes. The new contract allows one 30-minute break after five hours and then another after nine hours.
The new contracts also introduce a new “guardian of safe working hours”. This will be someone within a hospital or organisation responsible for ensuring that rules on safe working hours are followed.
The "average junior doctor " earns around 37K with new contracts guaranteeing an additional 10%-11% to their basic pay. Plus 37%, yes 37% on top of their basic hourly rate for work between 9pm and 7am. 8% on top of all this IF they are on call.
I won't comment anymore on this subject as I have work to do, aa I only drop by once in a while, but happy debating to all of you.
Do people honestly believe this will only effect junior doctors? Hospitals could not function without other health care workers, doctors do not work in isolation. What happens when changes are introduced to other health care workers who are less able to defend themselves? Why are the changes only being made to doctors in England, if Jeremy Hunt really is concerned about the NHS why not make changes to doctors across the NHS?
I think it is difficult to try and compare medical practice with the 60's, 70's and 80's and I would not want to return to those days. Health care is so much more fast paced then even 10 years ago that there is no comparison. At what level did you work as a doctor and what speciality did you work in?