JUNIOR doctors at hospitals across east London and Essex have joined the national strike because of an ongoing dispute over a new contract between the Government and the British Medical Association.
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With no signs of a resolution anytime soon, junior doctors in England have once again taken to picket lines across the country in protest against working and pay conditions being proposed by the government.
A spokeswoman for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust, which runs East Surrey Hospital said: “Our teams of consultant and speciality doctors will be working and providing care during the strike alongside our nurses, therapists and other teams across the trust”. “It’s very complex”. No love.
On February 1, the BMA announced its intention to strike on February 10, as planned, but changed the level of service it is asking junior doctors to withdraw from a full walk out.
“A lasting agreement must be found to prevent still further disruption for patients and raise the morale of hard-working junior doctors”.
It is the second day of industrial action taken by junior doctors, following a previous 24-hour walkout in January. We want a contract that is safe for you as a patient and fair to us as doctors.
The government underestimated the public’s appreciation of the NHS, and after an expensive failure to reorganise the service for ideological reasons in the last parliament, the attempt to impose a new round of changes on junior doctors appears to be following a similar path.
She said: “We have had quite a lot of people here today, it’s been a good turnout”.
Comedian and actor Sanjeev Bhakshar showed his support on Twitter, saying: ” #JuniorDoctorsStrike The alternative is an underpaid undertrained Dr who’s been up for 20 hrs on caffeine treating my child in an emergency”.
Junior doctors demonstrated outside hospitals around England.
Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, separately wrote to Mr Hunt with concerns he had “misrepresented” an article on weekend mortality and inferred that the deaths were avoidable, when the study did not make that clear.
“At the moment there doesn’t seem to be any sort of movement from the BMA side”, the source said.
At James Cook 105 outpatient appointments and 16 operations have been cancelled, said a spokesperson for South Tees NHS Foundation Trust.
“From what I know overwhelming numbers of our public support us because they tell us as patients, their families and people on the street”.
“We want to keep patients safe”.
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If you are not rostered to work on the days of industrial action then you should not go into work.
