Consultants at the hospital featured in Channel 4 show 24 Hours In A&E have launched a campaign to reassure patients that full emergency care will be provided during next week’s junior doctors’ strikes. The NHS has been pulling out all the stops to minimise the risks to the quality and safety of care but this is an unprecedented situation during a time of heightened risk.
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Patients in need of urgent and emergency care will still be able to access the care they need.
It is as junior doctors prepare for an all out walk out next week – which includes A&E for the first time.
‘In some places the NHS may be under specific pressure.
The BMA is said to be considering an indefinite walk-out by junior doctors across England following next week’s strike, leaked emails have revealed.
More than a hundred senior doctors at Treliske are reassuring patients that we will be in safe hands during strike action.
Doctors say the new contract involves pay cuts of up to 30 per cent and claim they are being made to work longer hours for less pay – putting patient’s lives at risk.
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, the national medical director of NHS England, has labelled the action reckless, unethical, a breach of the medical profession’s fundamental duty to “do no harm” and a move that will destroy the public’s trust in doctors.
NHS managers across east London have warned people not to come to hospital for non-emergency care during next week’s junior doctors strike. “We have to plan differently to how we’ve prepared for previous strikes”.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has proposed the strikes over rows over changes to junior doctors’ new contracts and pay.
In a statement, Dr Malawana said: “Throughout this process the BMA has done everything in its power to end this dispute through talks, including a clear and genuine offer to the Government this week, calling on it to lift the imposition, at which point next week’s action would be called off”.
“It’s disappointing, the continued failures of the Government to reopen negotiations”.
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“The crucial message, however, is this; it is not too late to end this dispute and call off next week’s action entirely. Instead, we had no choice but to proceed with proposals recommended and supported by NHS leaders – which were 90% agreed with the BMA”.
