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Author:  pcernie [ Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:14 am ]
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More five-day doctor strikes announced - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37250258

Quote:
The dates were agreed at a special meeting of union leaders on Thursday.

It came just hours after Prime Minister Theresa May called on doctors to stop "playing politics" in their dispute over the imposition of a new contract.


Playing politics? By stating that they're already exhausted and worried for patients' lives? Do one.

Quote:
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has described the strikes as "devastating news", predicting they would lead to the cancellation of 100,000 operations and one million appointments.


Is he catching up on Brexit BS or something? Mind you, he is known for it when it comes to the NHS.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:28 am ]
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FS. His own civil servants are telling him his plans are unworkable and dangerous.
Author:  paulzolo [ Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:36 am ]
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The GMC is saying that patients will suffer if the strikes go ahead. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37272676
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:00 am ]
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paulzolo wrote:
The GMC is saying that patients will suffer if the strikes go ahead. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37272676

Obviously you had to be a highly qualified medical professional to figure that out :|. The strike is (at least as far as the JDs believe) very much 'the lesser of two evils'.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:37 am ]
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The GMC is just scaremongering. No doubt they've been leant on by the Govt. When junior docs are on strike, it's the senior docs who are on the wards ie consultants (and consultant-level doctors) will be looking after patients. If anything, patients will be getting better care. Also, given that junior docs work in a team headed by the consultant, any problems go back to the consultant, so if a patient dies because of a junior doctor's actions, the consultant will have some liability.
Author:  MaryBurnett [ Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:22 pm ]
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Quote:
patients will be getting better care.
Well you would have thought that, but many senior doctors and consultants do no know how to use the normal day to day equipment properly.
I had a consultant try to take my blood for a test as the nurses were rather busy looking after an emergency, and he eventually gave up and called one of the nurses across to do it.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:24 pm ]
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True - the day-to-day things of discharge summaries, bloods, prescriptions etc - will be things normally done by the junior doctors. Doesn't mean consultants can't do them, but it will take them longer.
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