Would you support the doctors' strike.

A friend of mine was in hospital over the Easter weekend - she didn't see 1 medic in 4 days??!!

I'll give her credit when she doesn't vote with the government in the next few weeks on everything to do with the NHS.
It's only the junior doctors row and the seven day working week with no extra resources that she is worried about. She still supports the top-down reorganisation of the NHS and the new Health and Social Care Act brought in by Lansley.

So her voting is based on what she believes is right. One doesn't have to agree with her views to give her credit for that, just as you expect, say, Corbyn, to be given credit for basing his votes on what he believes is right. That's all I meant.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/doctors-serve-legal-action-against-hunt-as-they-plan-fourth-48hour-walkout-a3217401.html

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/17/pressure-mounts-on-jeremy-hunt-over-handling-of-junior-doctors-dispute

Another u-turn?

How we to get rid of Jeremy Hunt?

One of the doctors who was outside the DoH headquarters had a meeting with Hunt yesterday.
He asked Hunt what if he could have anything in exchange for imposition, what would it be?
Hunt replied, "Nothing."
Yet he would have us believe it is the BMA that is being obstructive.

murrayhealth.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/meeting-jeremy-hunt/

Actually junior doctors do work hard. Often doing way above their hours without pay. They can also do another shift following on if there are not enough doctors to cover wards. With the stress of caring for extremely unwell.patients. how do I know. I worked in the nhs!

annoaka,

Admit him to an NHS hospital and leave him in a cupboard for a few days!

Can you imagine any NHS hospital being willing to admit him?

On a trolley in A&E over the strike next week?

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/24/mps-call-for-pilot-of-junior-doctors-contract-to-avoid-strike-action

Jeremy Hunt ignoring a cross-party agreement asking him to pilot his idea.
Again it shows it's not to do with the NHS, just to do with his own prejuduce.
Question Time audience said he should resign.

What a difference a day makes.
Yesterday afternoon I came home to find DH in bed shivering uncontrollably and with a soaring temperature. I rang 111 and they sent round a paramedic team to assess him who then took him to A&E. He has a serious infection and septicaemia needing IV antibiotics which they started by bolus there and then. Last thing last night DH was still in the Observation Unit in A&E.
Despite a lovely reassuring doctor who said that he wanted to admit him before this week's strike as they would be " looking after their own" I now feel a visceral reaction to today's strike. Up to now my reaction has been intellectual, but with DD's first baby due in a week and DH in hospital, it is too close to home to contemplate with any detachment.
If you haven't seen the clip of Heidi Alexander in the Commons, do find it and watch it. I found it chilling.

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I think this is it. I am NOT approaching this in any politically partisan way, but this government seems hell bent on confrontation at all costs and while they may be smugly patting themselves on the back for "winning the battle", it will at best be a Pyrrhic victory.

quote from the hypocratic oath....."Also I will, according to my ability and judgment, prescribe a regimen for the health of the sick; but I will utterly reject harm and mischief",

isn't going out on strike causing 'harm and mischief' ?

A senior Tory has said this is the same as the miners strike and I agree

The harm lies with Hunt not the doctors

I don't understand how Hunt keeps his job. It is the biggest mess ever seen in the NHS and yet he survives!

Hunt keeps his job because he is willing to carry out the government's plan to demolish the NHS and take the flack .

On the Queen's birthday the NHS put out a statement about a new deal for GPs.
They have been promised 10% of NHS funds by 2020.
This is from the 8.6% they get now.
It means no new money, just a bigger share of the money that's there already.
As one GP said, if it had been a brilliant deal with new money, it would have been shouted from the rooftops.

The last strike, I was in hospital with my mother in law, who had fallen from a chair and had to have a scan to find out if there were any bones broken.
The hospital care was excellent. The waiting for the ambulance at both ends was over two hours. I read yesterday that the ambulance unions are balloting for a strike over their conditions.

nhap.org/can-we-cut-through-the-waffle-and-talk-sense-about-the-junior-doctors-says-dr-clive-peedell-leader-of-the-national-health-action-party/

What's the Queen's birthday got to do with it?

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Jeremy Hunt's plan in pictures.

Ask the NHS, Ana.

A clear explanation .jen

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/27/jeremy-hunt-doesnt-understand-junior-doctors-book-dismantle-nhs

Written by Frankie Boyle. I do not like him, but I like this.

www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=36df52fd-5e74-44b5-ae0a-340896c42369

Why the GMB are going to ballot ambulance staff.
Hunt has broken his promises to them on pay and conditions.
The problem is that the government has already tried to privatise the ambulance services in various parts of the country, but it hasn't worked.