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6th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I agree Wilf, a contract should not be IMPOSED, it should be an agreement between two parties, otherwise it is not a contract!ViewDate:
5th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Well if you are a pharmacist working in a well known brand who has a chain of chemists in our hospitals I would question their ethics. They are one of the contracted out businesses who are pocketing the profits.ViewDate:
5th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?It has just been announced that next weeks stike action has been suspended due to concerns for patient safety.ViewDate:
5th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Taken from the NHAP site run by doctors who know what they are talking about - ' The level of cuts and closures required by the STPs is such that the NHS will become unable to provide a universal service. Rationing will increase, so that most routine procedures will be refused funding. Once various DGHs have closed, the hospitals still standing will struggle with their increased catchment areas and will be forced to provide essentials only. This was already envisaged by Simon Stevens, who is keen to separate emergency care from routine care. Emergencies will be handled in NHS hospitals, whilst the routine work will be handled by the private sector. Patients wishing to undergo non-essential procedures will find themselves needing to pay to have their cataracts and hernias treated or their tonsils removed.' This is not scaremongering, it is part of the governments 5 year plan plan for our health care. This is what the doctors are fighting alongside their safety concerns around working hours. STP stands for Sustainability and Transformation Plans whereby NHS England has split the country into 44 regions or footprints. Each region had to report by June this year on how they were going to make their books balance. Difficult when the government is underfunding services. How are they achieving this, by closing A&E departments, reducing the number of beds and cutting back on staff. Our health care workers are working in intolerable conditions and yet they will still treat you with care and a smile. They deserve our support.ViewDate:
5th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?The General Medical Council appear to have issued a statement threatening to revoke doctors' licences to practise if they go on stike next week. Do you really believe that doctors would risk their careers and livelihoods just for a few extra pence? They are fighting our battle, fighting for patient safety, fighting to save our NHS, and they need our support. The National Health Action Party was formed as a single issue political party by two doctors in an attempt to publicise what is happening to our health care, and to try and save it. They have a facebook page with lots of accurate information. This is part of a quote from a link they shared this morning. ' the government doesn’t mind if the NHS collapses. In fact, it has been the neoliberal plan for several decades. The NHS has been brought to the point of collapse by deliberate underfunding (not “overspending”), a hospital and bed closure plan (we now have less than one third the beds per head of population than Germany), shortsighted manpower planning and cynical scare stories about safety. This is all presided over by the NHS chief executive Simon Stevens, former vice-president of the US private healthcare company UnitedHealth, and a secretary of state, Jeremy Hunt, who was co-author of a book calling for the end of the NHS (another co-author was Greg Clark, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy). ' All this information is available for doubters to verify. We need to wake up to what is happening now, because once the NHS is gone it is gone and we won't get it back.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Jeremy Hunt wasn't replaced because he is doing exactly what his government wants him to do.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?This strike is NOT just about working hours. It is about the future of our NHS.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I am sorry to here about your husband Lydia321. There is nothing worse than being in constant pain. I do not know your circumstances and hope all goes well for your husband. What I do know is that if the jnr doctors do not win the fight, the privatisation of our health care is well on the way. This will mean that we will have to pay for some ops like hip and knee, which will mean we will have to take out private insurance. Those of us who cannot afford to do so will remain in pain because an operation will be out of our grasp. Our hospitals will only be interested in performing operations that bring in the profits.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I think you know that isn't true. Are you one of the executives I wonder?ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I think it may actually come to a general strike in order to combat the present governments plans to privatise everything in sight, destroy our health service, our education system and take away all our rights, including our right to peaceful protest. Enough is enough and we cannot go on as we are. The doctors are making a stand and we all need to work together and do the same.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?I agree jeanmark, most of them are under the influence of Rupert Murdoch who has his own unpleasant agenda. I also refuse to subscribe to Sky TV for the same reason. Even the better newspapers have their own agenda as you point out. A good source of unbiased news is The Canary on line.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Sorry but that is incorrect. The government are contracting services out because that is their plan, they want to make profit from our health care. They are not interested in patients or people, only profit. The CEO of NHS England, Simon Stevens, used to be part of the biggest health insuranace company in the USA. He was advisor to the Blairites and now he is in charge of NHS England. Much of our health care is privatised now and we are heading for the USA model which is appalling. The 2012 Health and Social Welfare Act removed the responsibilty of our health secretary of sate to provide health care in England. Only Wales and Scotland now have an NHS.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?Patients will not be at risk because of the strike. The consultants are supporting the junior doctors and will stand in for them wherever needed. During the last days of action there were more doctors available than usual because great care was being taken to cover for the junior doctors. There will be a lot more risk to patients if the government win this fight. The doctors need our one hundred percent support over this issue. They are not fighting for themselves, they are standing up for patients and the future of our health care system. Please don't believe all the garbbage they print inthe media.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?There is no other way, they have been trying to negotiate for a long time now and the government is not listening, patients lives are at stake here.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?disgraceful comment, they are fighting to save our health care system, I hope you never need it.ViewDate:
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4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?If the CEO of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has his way there are a lot of hospital closures on the cards. People will have to travel further for treatment and there are plans for much more home treatment. There will be less qualified nursing staff and they will have the added stress of being asked to undertake tasks now done by the junior doctors. Hospitals are already taking hip, knee and cataract ops off their lists. We will have to pay for those. These are changes that the junior doctors are fighting and they need us all to support them. Do some research.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?The harm will come if the doctors lose their fight, sadly patients lives really will be at risk thenViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?You are missing the point of the strike entirelyViewDate:
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4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?You are obviously very unaware of the present situation in the NHSViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?The doctors are striking to fight for patient safety. Many patients will be put at risk if Simon Steven's five year plan is implemented.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?You assume a lot and your assumptions are wrong and dangerous. We are in this situation because the government is privatising the health service bit by bit. They have deliberately trained less doctors and nurses. The ones who remain are working under intolerable stresses and they have decided to take action because the situation is so severe that they are now concerned for patient safety. The government's plan is to run the NHS down so that they can then try and convince us that privatisation is beneficial and necessary. We can afford the NHS if the money was going to the right places. A publicly funded health service is proven to be more economical than any private system. At the moment most of the NHS budget goes to paying off PFI debts and providing profit for all of the private companies who are contracted to work for the NHS which inludes some ambulances, pharmacy, catering, cleaning, agency staff etc, etc. http://999callfornhs.org.uk/footprints/4592357931ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?The Daily Mail reports are often very far from accurate and they are biased towards the Tory government, so I think caution is required when reading their articles.ViewDate:
4th Sep 2016SMD50 commented on:
Do you support the Junior Doctor's latest planned 5 day strike?The junior doctors are fighting to save our National Health Service not for their own gains. I have spoken to them on the picket line and they are concerned for patient safety. To learn more about what is happening to our NHS here is a link - http://www.consented.co.uk/read/a-999-call-for-the-nhs-the-battle-against-privatisation