Doctors' Contract Set To Be Imposed

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35548091

This is ludicrous !

Does dave really think that he is doing us any favours here ! What happens if the Doctors refuse to accept this new contract ? Will he sack 10,000's of Doctors ?

He should step back from the brink, sack Hunt and appoint someone else.

[Bobsy]

How dare those Doctors disagree with the Tories,don't they know that Public schooling gives them the right to decide everything ?

[Peter Pedant]

// O_G is the Drs that are agitating about long hours, would be the first to offer to cover weekends and evenings and rake in 3 times the pay. //

the difficulty with this discussion is that most posters here arent aware of a junior doctors modern contract

The minister has power to impose a contract - which kinda not makes it a contract but never mind - and virtually no other employment contract does the employer enjoy such unfettered power

I am virtually sure under TURLA rules this would not be a 'new' contract but counted for years served purposes etc as a contrinuation of the old one

junior doctors are not allowed to work unsupervised and so forcing them to work at week ends means that their supervisors ( consultants are gonna have to be there as well ) Hence Dr Porter saying that other staff will be next

Emergncy care has always been covered but this new thing is to cover routine lists and out patients during a week end

Running labs X ray and secretarial services has not been costed as it is not 'planned' yet - yes they are planning routine services over a week end without running the usual things you see Mon Fri - labs - X ray and so safety is an issue whethher or not in the Good Old Days the only special investigation Sqad used was a mercury thermometer ....

and Sqad as for enslavement of the junior doctors
you were in the generation whose mouths were stuffed with God werent you ?
You can tell us you know
....

and yeah Mikey - all the CEOs who were meant to support Jeremy Hunt to "solve the period of uncertainty" - NB caused by one J hunt esq -
have all reneged

clearly they dont want a demotivated sullen unhelpful workforce .....
( sudduv rule no 1 in management innit - dont poss off your productive elements as then your productivity will plummet )

[Canary42]

This is just the same tactic Thatcher used with the miners. Push them until they have to strike - then demolish the industry. This time it's the NHS, which the Tories have wanted to destroy for years..

[EDDIE51]

I heard the the Welsh medical board, which is chronically short of doctors, has promised to employ any doctors who resign from the English boards as a result of this. Scotland is interested in employing them too!