DR'S STRIKE AGAIN (27)

what do you think? 5 days on the trot this time. Junior docs that is.

Do you think it was the generations of kids who stomped their feet and got their own way with harrassed parents who could not say no?

Blackmail to get their own way, and got away with it.

Now these self-same spoiled brats are doing it to the country, and worst of all, ill sick people who rely on their help.

For shame on them, I say, I will wrap their waving banners around their smiling faces given half the chance. I will hold my hands up to the police and say "sorry I am just a senile old women"

I have not seen the current offer in print so where have the ACTUAL details of the Junior doctors rejected offer been published to enable the Public to read and make a more informed comment.

As usual the public "users" of the service are being shamefully controlled and manipulated by Government and Media propaganda and deliberate misinformation to cause division and argument, anger and upset against ONLY one side - The workers involved.
There are two sides in any dispute - I know from experience and speaking with doctors and consultants at my local hospital that the views of all ward staff, doctors, technicians and consultants have been treated with contempt by the Far right government attitude and its Ministry at all levels.

Sorry Mike I know you to be a staunch union man, but the fact is Dr's are striking, or the unions are not capable of debating and juggling issues to get a satisfactory outcome. So yes maybe unions and government are using dr's and patients.

Well the considered professional opinion inside working on the job including my Consultant is, that the Health minister's intransigence at their meetings with the BMA was such that ACAS wre dismmayed and blame him and the whole department for what is happening now.

The government, Hunt and his other department untrained idiots are not acknowledging that the whole NHS staffing levels are insufficient to cope, and that there are and have been for far too long too many tiers of overpaid management, many brought in from outside with no clinical knowledge.

Recently ACAS and the BMA both said that in order to achieve the 7 day service top management salaries need to be cut and additional financial resources will need to be increased for all clinical and technical services.

For example - Outside contracts - Not only do Nursing agencies cost more, BUT If any item of ward testing kit breaks down now or needs a battery or even idicator light replaced there are no onsite technicians to fix it and maintenance staff are not allowed to do the job either since 2006. In my local hospital they have employed Outside medical engineering contractors who take 3 weeks at more expense rates than when qualified multi skilled technicians were employed on site. They were all dismissed with redundancy payments and to make matters worse, the co-alition Government finally got rid of other Hospital workshop facilities in 2010 allegedly to save money.

That is no fault of the BMA or any other Trades Union.

Yep dear Mike I suspected you would answer in that way.

But Junior Docs are prepared to go out on strike knowing its pure blackmail.

Agency staff are paid an awful lot of money, they have opted to do this, three days work for a weeks pay. This should be stopped,this is bad practice has got us this way.

I worked throughout the seven days including night shifts. Most people work that way, why not doctors nurses.

That is no fault of the BMA or any other Trades Union.

The BMA accepted the most recent Government wage offer? Dont the Doctor's still sign the Hippocratic Oath to care and save lives, if so I am trying to get my head around the fact they are refusing to treat the patients by going on strike.
At the start of this it was NOT about money but patient care, as the Doctors would be too tired to care for their patients... but if the government pay them extra they will not be too tired and the strikes will be called off?

BUT If any item of ward testing kit breaks down now or needs a battery or even idicator (sic ) light replaced there are no onsite technicians to fix it and maintenance staff are not allowed to do the job either since 2006
Total CRAP, my son-in-law is a maintenance electrician at my local hospital so when something stops working he is called to fix it, if he cant thats when the specialist contractor is called in?

wow wow Mike you will have a heart attack then what are you going to do?

I have had only six weeks experience of first aid but I will give you defibrillation shock

And I´ll give him a swift kick to the nuts

You are not fit enough and nor would you live long enough so carry on bullying the kids you allegedly teach.