Would you support the doctors' strike.

"Jeremy Hunt has launched an urgent inquiry into the level of junior doctors’ morale and welfare as large numbers threaten to quit the profession over being forced to accept a new contract.

The Health Secretary appointed Dame Sue Bailey of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to lead the review."

Irony, or just idiotic?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121262

The one for Hunt to resume negotiations with the BMA is over 100,000 now.

Thank you trisher - signed and shared

Here it is petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121152
Just signed.

Can the link to VONC in Hunt be posted please. Thanks

Support the JD's all the way Hunt is ecomomical with the truth. Get to the picket lines and show solardarity with this group of workers, the Tories and right wing think tanks just see workers as punch bags for cuts and worsening cuts. Sign the petitions and force Hunt to a U turn. Remember the public gets what the public wants, as long as we make our collective voice heard.

Over 200,000 signatures for a vote of no confidence in Hunt, in two days.

www.hospitaldr.co.uk/blogs/dr-blogs/heidi-alexander-this-whole-dispute-could-have-been-handled-so-differently

This is a fuller response from Heidi Alexander.

"The Guardian has established that none of the 152 foundation trust hospitals in England will be obliged to force their junior doctors to accept the deal and can instead offer them better terms.

The disclosure of an opt-out for top hospitals threatens to derail the health secretary’s controversial push to impose new terms and conditions on all 45,000 junior doctors that has sparked their bitter and long-running dispute.

Labour claimed the loophole showed that Hunt’s plan was falling apart. “Jeremy Hunt’s decision to impose the junior doctors’ contract seems to be unravelling with every day that goes by,” said the shadow health secretary, Heidi Alexander.

“The fact that hospitals are trying to find ways around contract imposition underlines the extent to which the decision to impose a contract that nobody wants would destroy morale in the NHS.” "

This is what Heidi Alexander has been saying.

Nearly 65,000 signatures for parliament to sit on Saturdays as a normal working day. That must be every junior doctors signatures.

The petition for Jeremy Hunt to resume meaningful negotiations with the BMA has now reached 93000+ signatures.
It will soon have enough support for a debate in parliament.
I wonder if they will debate it along with the no confidence vote.

press.labour.org.uk/post/139112295709/jeremy-hunts-decision-to-impose-a-contract-on

Corbyn's response.

186,000+ signatures for a vote of no confidence in Hunt already.

Corbyn was actually at the enquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, quietly talking to families involved, along with Andy Burnham.

Hunt wouldn't dare go there. He blamed the fans when he was culture secretary.

The real agenda behind the new contract was well explained by a junior doctor www.lbc.co.uk/junior-doctor-perfectly-explains-why-you-should-back-them-124912
So having a 7 day NHS with elective surgery and clinics at the weekend is about making it more attractive to private health companies- makes perfect sense to me.

Thank you Jen, not known for honesty is Hunt,

Thank heaven Corbyn doesn't pop up on tv hugging huskies, making salads , feeding orphan lambs , jogging, surf boarding, he did meet striking doctors on a demo but this wasn't interesting for the Tory press to print , doctors on strike not important , donning Lycra and surfing boarding is

Interesting comments in this mornings paper

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The Hunt problem

To say junior doctors are suspicious of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to state the obvious.

This week the BMA was using terms like "attacked" and "patronised". Perhaps with some justification.

There are plenty of people within the health service not associated with the BMA who privately acknowledge the health secretary could have gone about this much better.

There is also a belief among doctors that this contract is part of a wider desire to erode the terms and conditions of the entire NHS workforce to make it cheaper to increase staffing at weekends.

To, in effect, squeeze more and more from a workforce that believes it gives plenty.
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And while the government has made much of its claims that some doctors will be better off, a significant number - perhaps as many as one in four - would lose out if it wasn't for the government pledge to top up their pay for three years.

In short, the profession believes if staffing is to be increased at weekends it needs to be accompanied by an increase in investment.

But ministers are trying to do this for the same money. The sums simply don't add up, doctors say

My thoughts, is this the way to build up good working relations or arrogant
Minister determined to have his way?

The Shadow Health Secretary is Heidi Alexander Ana and she speaks for the shadow cabinet on this.
Hunt is also pretty quiet, dodging interviews and sending junior ministers to the Commons to defend his position.

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/12/hospitals-jeremy-hunt-junior-doctors-contract

This is interesting. It seems that hospitals do not need to use Hunt's comtract. They can offer whatever contract they want.

Corbyn's very quiet these days. Is he on another walking holiday?

www.onmedica.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=ae9bd3c7-fd91-4ab1-a314-1df8f3ee6a46

This is what the hospital chief executives said about his statement that they backed him. Most of them didn't.

Anyone heard the statement he made in the house yesterday wasn't accurate ,I only heard a snatch

I support the Doctors . Hunt has an agenda and also won`t back down as that would be the end of his career for the time being ! these disgraced Tories usually go quiet for a while then reappear when they think everyone has forgotten .

www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/dominic-pimenta/jeremy-hunt-goes-nuclear-12-things-you-need-to-know

This is why Jeremy Hunt is to blame.