An arbitration request by NHS staff to Jeremy Hunt

The following is a message from Rob Galloway, an A & E doctor who works for the NHS, concerning the imminent strikes by junior doctors:

Dear All.
Please can I ask for all your help in a last ditch attempt to force Mr Hunt to go to arbitration which would lead to the Junior Doctor strike being called off. Please sign the letter below (TO SIGN YOU MUST PUT YOUR DETAILS IN AS A COMMENT. NAME & JOB TITLE. PLEASE SIGN THE LETTER ON ROBERT GALLOWAY FACEBOOK PAGE AND NOT A SHARED VERSION)

The way the new junior contract has been mishandled, has created a massive threat to the future of the NHS. Please help by reading the message below, SHARING the post WITH A PUBLIC SETTING, tweeting, tag your friends, signing the letter and telling your colleagues who work in /associated with the NHS.

We need Mr Hunt to go to arbitration to stop a strike and junior doctors leaving the NHS. A letter of support from all NHS workers may make a difference – especially if this was signed by tens of thousands of staff, and was delivered to Mr Hunt prior to the first strike. (1st December).
Below is the letter we will send. If you wish to sign please put in the comment section your:

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Name and job title and ideally your post nominal qualifications, place of work and if you can remember it your Professional number (but don't worry if you can't). if you are an ex NHS worker you can also sign - just make it clear in the comment section
Please do NOT put anything else in the comment sections. Please note that this is a letter from all NHS workers in support of our junior doctors. As such, it is NOT to be signed by junior doctors as we think that this will enhance the impact. (but juniors -please help by spreading the word)
Thanks very much for your help. Please share, like and sign by writing your details in the comment section!
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The Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP,
Secretary of State for Health
Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London SW1A 2NS
Dear Secretary of State,
We write to you as NHS workers across the spectrum of staff from Porters to Managers, GPs to Consultants and Nurses to Paramedics. We write asking for your help to stop the unwanted Junior Doctor strike. None of us signing this letter are Junior Doctors and so we are not affected personally or financially by the contract changes. Our only priority is patient care and it is with this in mind that we are writing to you.

Everyday we see the amazing work that our Junior Doctors do. They are the backbone and the future of the NHS. We respect and thank them for their dedication to the NHS and deplore the spin and mistruths being thrown at them.

Their relationship with you has deteriorated to such an extent that 98% voted for a strike; something none of them wanted to do.

In addition, thousands are looking to leave the NHS and with this we lose their skills and expertise. Unless a solution is found to this contract dispute, then irretrievable damage will be done to the NHS.

They have been forced to vote for industrial action because you are not listening to their legitimate concerns. They have no other way of making you listen.

The BMA have said they would call off the strike if you attended independent arbitration through ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration service) and so far you have refused. We do not understand why you would not attend these meetings, as this would avert the strike.
We ask you, for the sake of our patients, please attend independent arbitration. There is a complete lack of trust in you by the Junior Doctors therefore independent arbitration is the only way to try and resolve this situation.

A militant is someone who refuses to change his or her opinion despite evidence to the contrary. You say that you do not want a strike but then refuse to go to independent arbitration via ACAS, an action which would lead to the strike being called off. This, by definition, shows that it is indeed you who is the militant and not the Junior Doctors.

If you cannot find it within yourself to enter arbitration, then we ask you to resign so that a new Secretary of state can be appointed and enter arbitration to avert the strike and try and solve this situation.

For the sake of our patients we ask you to listen to what we have said and act acordingly
Yours sincerely on behalf of the staff of the NHS,
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(p.s. TO SIGN YOU MUST PUT YOUR DETAILS IN AS A COMMENT. NAME & JOB TITLE.PLEASE SIGN THE LETTER ON ROBERT GALLOWAY FACEBOOK PAGE AND NOT A SHARED VERSION OF THE LETTER ON SOMEONE ELSE'S HOMEPAGE AS OTHERWISE CAN NOT GET A LIST OF SIGNEES)

p.p.s Please please help spread the letter. Please tag friends. Please post on forums. Please tweet out and link to people with big followings. I believe we will get a a lot of PR if we get massive numbers signing up to this. I also have had information that JH is under an incredible amount of pressure to back down and that this letter could make a big impact

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