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The junior doctor at the heart of an escalating row over NHS strike action has warned that the imposition of a new contract could lead to a collapse in morale and an exodus of staff.
Ellen McCourt, chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said that the health service, which faces the looming prospect of Brexit and an ageing population, was already “chronically understaffed” and that the proposed changes risked pushing the service to breaking point.
“The biggest risk with this contract, and also with this dispute continuing, is that doctors will leave the NHS,” said McCourt. “You can’t stretch us more thinly. There needs to be a plan – how are we going to make medicine more attractive to people? How are we going to make people stay in the NHS?”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/03/junior-doctors-desert-nhs-over-contract-bma-mccourt
Ellen McCourt, chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said that the health service, which faces the looming prospect of Brexit and an ageing population, was already “chronically understaffed” and that the proposed changes risked pushing the service to breaking point.
“The biggest risk with this contract, and also with this dispute continuing, is that doctors will leave the NHS,” said McCourt. “You can’t stretch us more thinly. There needs to be a plan – how are we going to make medicine more attractive to people? How are we going to make people stay in the NHS?”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/03/junior-doctors-desert-nhs-over-contract-bma-mccourt
