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Open letter to the general public re NHS strikes

24/4/2016

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Dear Public

Please give me 3 minutes of your time to read this letter, which explains what is really going on with the junior doctor strike and what it is all about.

I am really worried that people are believing the deceit and spin from the government and their cronies in the press. But the truth of the matter is so different to what they have been saying. Please read this short message from someone on the front line who knows the truth:

1.No one wants a strike. Especially not our junior doctors. They have promised to call off the strike if the government stop imposition of a contract which is not safe for patients and not fair for doctors. The government have refused and are putting political ideology in front of patient care. They could stop the strike now with one phone call.

2. Consultants and other senior doctors will be covering, so no harm should come to our patients because of the strike. The vast majority of senior doctors including myself support our juniors. We know why they are striking - to protect our NHS in the longer term.

3. Operations and clinics will be delayed and that is awful for those affected. But 1000s more operations have been delayed this years because of a bed crisis and underfunding, compared to the delays to elective care caused by the strikes.

4. The juniors are not striking because of pay - but because the new contract discriminates against female doctors, discriminate against those who work in specialities delivering care outside of 9-5 and will lead to an exodus of doctors from the NHS. It will make weekend emergency cover much harder to deliver because of a lack of doctors and patients will suffer.

5. Scotland and Wales NHS know this to be the case and are thus not going down this route of these changes of their Junior Doctors' contracts.

6. The junior doctor crisis is already here. Because of the way they are being treated, many are leaving the NHS. Rota gaps are now very common and patients are being put at risk because of this. Indeed an A&E in Lancashire had to downgrade from a full A&E at night as there was not enough junior doctors to staff the A&E department 24/7.

7. The biggest threat to the NHS is what happens when our disillusioned and depressed juniors decide to up sticks and leave their jobs when they rotate in August. We can cope with a short strike; we can't cope with an exodus of junior doctors in August.

8. We have 3 days till the strike starts. 3 days till we lose the goodwill of 54,000 junior doctors. Without this goodwill we cannot care for our patients as well as we do. Please email/write to your government MPs to put pressure on Hunt and Cameron to change their minds before it is too late. Please join demonstrations. Please help us change their minds.

We can only hope that even though they may not listen to NHS staff on the front line who know what is happening, they may listen to their voters.

This is the truth as I see it. I am someone who will not be personally affected by a new contract, but someone who cares passionately about his staff, his patients and the NHS.

Please share and tweet so that people know the truth.

Rob
(A very concerned A&E consultant)

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John G. Stigar.
24/4/2016 07:28:07 pm

I know our capalists work. Greedy scumbags want it all & the poor to have nothing or very little. The tory government want to kill people off. They are lieing crooks. The clock is ticking for them.

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Jane Peverton
26/4/2016 04:46:11 pm

I am sorry but I, as a tax payer who has helped to pay your considerable salary over the past few years, think that you should be required to pay back every penny.

I worked for BT for 16 years and you will no doubt be amused to know that we often worked 90 hour weeks working on bids to bring much needed revenue into this country. And, like many millions of your hard-working patents, we didn't get overtime or time off in lieu.

So you won't be surprised to know that I have no sympathy with you....

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Paul Barker
2/5/2016 09:02:11 am

Jane
You are ill informed. Doctors in training are not especially well paid, starting at 24k after 5 years at medical school and around 50k of debt! You say you work 90 hours per week, do you really want to be looked after by a doctor who has done the same. Face it, if they make a serious mistake you die, bit more permanent than a error on the phone or fibre optics. Many hospitals struggle to fill rotas and really on locum doctors filling the spaces, the new contract limits the pay to these doctors, and many will choose not to do these extra hours leaving hospitals short of staff.
I cannot get any kind of tradesman on aSaturday at the rates proposed.

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