Junior doctors strike

Nice little number for part time gps MaizieD?

ronib

If gps are covering in A&E for £200 an hour, who is covering for the gps?

I suspect that a significant number of GPs are part time, so could be available on their 'off' days.

I support the strikes.

I agree with Franbern. I have had a procedure postponed, which is concerning; but I am not in immediate danger, unlike many others.

The doctors really have no choice, other than to continue to accept low salaries. The government relies on the fact that doctors do care about saving lives, whereas they really don't. The general public is just collateral damage in their war against the welfare state.

IMO it's time we had a constitution - a proper contract with the government, setting out the standards we can expect from them, and what they expect from us in return. As it is, vague 'priorities' with no benchmarks for evaluating success are pointless. There would need to be a discussion about how it would work, and what penalties there would be for failure (if any - maybe a simple 'score' every year would be enough), but there are times when I do feel that deliberately misleading the public should be punishable by law.

I really wish the strikes weren't happening, and I feel for those who will suffer as a result, but I don't know what else the doctors can do - they have been forced into this position by a stubborn and uncaring government which is intent on dismantling the NHS.

If gps are covering in A&E for £200 an hour, who is covering for the gps?

I think it is totally disgusting that this government has permitted (even encouraged through their actions), this strike to have to go ahead. They do not care = they all have private medicine), they do not care for the thousands of people who will have operations and procedures cancelled, leaving them further time in pain, or care for those who are going to die due to this, or care for those doctors who have spent many years studying and more years really learning their craft, only to find themselves and their families so much financially worse off. They have been left with no choice but this industrial action. Disgusting that government have said they will not sit down to even discuss this.

Think the whole cabinet should be charged with Corporate Manslaughter.

My only bright spot in all of this is to hope that those Doctors families (many of whom normally have been tory voters) remember this betrayal in the future_