Junior doctors split over deal with Jeremy Hunt to end contract dispute

[Northerner]

Junior doctors’ leaders and Jeremy Hunt have unveiled a deal they hope will end their long-running dispute which has sparked eight days of strike action across the NHS.

The health secretary and the British Medical Association both welcomed the compromise, thrashed out over the last 10 days in talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).

They agreed an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors, the original version of which provoked the bitterest clash between the government and medical profession since the coalition’s controversial NHSshakeup of 2010-11.

The BMA said it had realised “significant improvements” and that a lot of the concerns of junior doctors had been addressed during the talks. Speaking to the Guardian, Hunt insisted the deal meant the government had stuck to all its “red lines” and would help usher in the seven-day NHS. However, there was a growing backlash from junior doctors over the terms agreed by their union.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...a-jeremy-hunt-agree-deal-end-contract-dispute

Uh-oh 😱

 

[Diabeticliberty]

I was on my way home from seeing a client at 7.00pm last night when news of this broke on the radio. It was met by a rather irate tirade of members of the public ringing in and texting in screaming that 'The greedy doctors just wanted more money'. I never believed and still do not believe that this dispute was ever just about how much junior doctors were being paid. It seems apparent however that perhaps 'special advisors' are spinning this story this way. With this in mind perhaps the BMA should directly address the public and explain it clearly from their own angle. I feel that this would help maintain the public support that they have enjoyed and in own opinion should continue to enjoy and throw a large ring spanner into the mechanism of the spin machine.

 

[trophywench]

Well ..... sorry Messrs Jr Drs who think it's still all rubbish - you will lose MY support and that of much of the general public if you can't agree to what the BMA are now recommending to you.

The BMA are your Union and as such are the ONLY negotiating body you have. If they say they couldn't get anything better then at some point you either have to believe them or walk completely away from it all I'm afraid.

OTOH perhaps your union are as clever as the Exec committee of the union I was a member of, and agreed to some things which they knew full well would prove totally unworkable in actual practice for the reason that they simply contained the seeds of their own destruction .....

To paraphrase the late Mr Terry Pratchett - we certainly DO live in Interesting Times - don't we ?

 

[Northerner]

OTOH perhaps your union are as clever as the Exec committee of the union I was a member of, and agreed to some things which they knew full well would prove totally unworkable in actual practice for the reason that they simply contained the seeds of their own destruction .....

To paraphrase the late Mr Terry Pratchett - we certainly DO live in Interesting Times - don't we ?

This is certainly my suspicion, because they haven't overcome the problem of shortage of resources, and it sounds like they have won some extra protections on being overworked/stretched further. Unfortunately, once this is agreed he's going to go through the same with the nurses