Junior doctors' strike: Treatments postponed amid walkout

[Northerner]

Hospitals in England are expected to face major disruption later as junior doctors go on strike in a dispute with the government over a new contract.

The doctors will provide emergency cover only during the 24-hour walkout, which gets under way at 08:00 GMT.

Hospitals have so far postponed 4,000 routine treatments, while appointments and tests are also being hit.

NHS chiefs said plans were in place to protect patients, despite David Cameron warning they could be put at risk.

In a last-minute plea for junior doctors to call off the action, the prime minister said the walkout would cause "real difficulties for patients and potentially worse".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35286343

 

[trophywench]

Yes like I've already said, he wants to bring them as low as he possibly can so he can screw them even more than he has already. I actually wish for all the staff - and our, actually! - sakes they could shut the whole thing down with a 100% wildcat strike - but of course there is absolutely no way any of them would countenance that.

But Cameron obviously thinks they would. Nasty man.

 

[Northerner]

You cannot escape the simple logic that with already overstretched resources, you cannot increase the availability of services safely.Add to that basic truth the fact that things are going to get even worse with doctors leaving the NHS because they are sick of the way they are being treated and talked about by the government, and recruitment into the NHS declining, and you end up with implosion. They MUST see this, so despite all the rhetoric about wanting to improve weekend outcomes for patients this is a purely political and idealogical move. To say nothing of the fact that they have just discouraged thousands of people from becoming nurses by removing rather than increasing bursaries, which will make 24/7 operation even less likely.

I fully support this strike because I want the NHS to continue to look after me like it has in the past. I want the staff to be happy and fulfilled in their work and look forward to each day. I'm disgusted by the attitude of conflict taken by this government

 

[grovesy]

I have been listen to LBC radio this morning James O'Brien had a group of Doctors on taking calls for 3 hours. He could not get anyone from the government to come on to the show.
They are sure the movetive is for privatisation.