GP's to Strike

[arista]

Starmer I thought he would sort this?


[GPs threaten to bring 'NHS to a standstill'
with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal]




GP's will Strike was on all media

[Quantum Boy]

GP's are private companies who are they striking against? Themselves?

[Vanessa]

Good. Give the government a hard time. They deserve it.

[arista]

Good. Give the government a hard time. They deserve it.


But so many need GP's

[Liam-]

GP’s are arguably some of the hardest people to have sympathy for these days so I really can’t see what they’re expecting to achieve

[joeysteele]

I thought they already were.
It's near impossible and has been since COVID to get to see one!!!!

[Livia]

£150,000pa for a three day week. Hard to feel sympathy. Anyway, how will anyone know they're taking industrial action? My doctor's surgery is empty, no one gets an appointment anyway, unless it's by phone. They used Covid to lighten their workload.

[arista]

BBC :Work To Rule
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72vp774rp3o


Sky News:
[Family doctors in England have voted
overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action
for the first time in 60 years in a
row over the new GP's contract.

GPs will be able to choose from
a series of actions set out by the
British Medical Association (BMA) after 98.3%
of more than 8,500 GPS in England who took
part voted in favour.]

https://news.sky.com/story/gps-vote-to-take-collective-action-for-first-time-in-60-years-13188629

[bots]

most of the public are angry at GP's already, so this will go down well

[UserSince2005]

of course they are, everyone will be striking now Labour are in goverment, easy way to get a huge pay rise, labour will sign it off without having a second thought for the economy and if we can afford it.

[Livia]

of course they are, everyone will be striking now Labour are in goverment, easy way to get a huge pay rise, labour will sign it off without having a second thought for the economy and if we can afford it.

Well, Labour are funded by the unions. Hard not to do what your paymasters demand...

[smudgie]

Oooh. Hoping I still get a phone call from my doctor this afternoon.
I rang the surgery Tuesday afternoon, managed to get two appointments for today and the 22nd. Also had a doctor get in touch within an hour and a script written up within an hour.:shrug:

[Livia]

Oooh. Hoping I still get a phone call from my doctor this afternoon.
I rang the surgery Tuesday afternoon, managed to get two appointments for today and the 22nd. Also had a doctor get in touch within an hour and a script written up within an hour.:shrug:

Where are you Smudge? I'm moving there immediately... I have a blood test at my GP's surgery every three months, used to be able to make an appointment for this online, now I have to go to the surgery. My Hematology appointment at the hospital is 29th August but my GP surgery can't fit me in for a blood test till September - and that's just for a blood test. They have 10 doctors and over 30,000 patients and they're still accepting new applicants.

[smudgie]

Where are you Smudge? I'm moving there immediately... I have a blood test at my GP's surgery every three months, used to be able to make an appointment for this online, now I have to go to the surgery. My Hematology appointment at the hospital is 29th August but my GP surgery can't fit me in for a blood test till September - and that's just for a blood test. They have 10 doctors and over 30,000 patients and they're still accepting new applicants.

Up North Livia.
We have a good GP surgery, plus we have a choice of three local hospitals for treatment.
Hubby wanted to have a cholesterol blood check, he popped in, picked a blood form up next day and managed to get a shingles jab as well.
I think we are lucky in that we are not too rural but not big enough to be overwhelmed.
We have a separate bloods clinic as well, can go either morning or afternoon any day, as long as you can get hold of a blood form from the surgery.

[Livia]

Up North Livia.
We have a good GP surgery, plus we have a choice of three local hospitals for treatment.
Hubby wanted to have a cholesterol blood check, he popped in, picked a blood form up next day and managed to get a shingles jab as well.
I think we are lucky in that we are not too rural but not big enough to be overwhelmed.
We have a separate bloods clinic as well, can go either morning or afternoon any day, as long as you can get hold of a blood form from the surgery.

Amazing... I live in the country my surgery is in a local town that's doubled in size in the last 10 years but the surgery has remained the same.

[arista]

Oooh. Hoping I still get a phone call from my doctor this afternoon.
I rang the surgery Tuesday afternoon, managed to get two appointments for today and the 22nd. Also had a doctor get in touch within an hour and a script written up within an hour.:shrug:



Good News.


But this is a Future Strike Collective Action.
because the Labour Health Secretary
gave Hospital Doctors 22%

GP's may want the same.

[arista]

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[Crimson Dynamo]

never lost a days work to fake covid...

[arista]

never lost a days work to fake covid...


Yes during China's Covid-19
they had no choice but to lock the doors
deaths were appearing.

[Beso]

never lost a days work to fake covid...

I worked all the way through the lockdown..I've had covid 5 times since it ended :hee:

[arista]

I worked all the way through the lockdown..I've had covid 5 times since it ended :hee:



Good on you.

[Alf]

I don't need a doctor. I eat red meat and eggs. And I smoke and drink beer. I'm fit as a fiddle.

I've been ill once in this decade so far, and I still went to work.

[arista]

Dr.Amir a younger Doctor
was on GMBHD itv
he said it is collective bargaining.
Not a Strike?

He claimed 10 measures
are on the table?

A GP surgery may only need 3 or 4 of them

[Quantum Boy]

never lost a days work to fake covid...

Wasn't that just cos your missus at the time got you a gig stacking boxes for Bezos?

[bots]

labour have basically set off a wage spiral across the country by giving a subset a pay hike. Just watch it spread across every sector of industry

[joeysteele]

I can accept there's problems for GPs but I really don't think they have the sympathy or support that the Nurses and Junior Doctors have/had.

All I've seen from during and since the COVID pandemic and heard from many others is massive disappointment and anger with GP service.
There are areas I guess where it's better but the whole system of appointments and then even actually getting to be face to face with the GP has become a battle not routine and one more likely to be lost than won.

Canvassing during the election, I found from all but a small number,.
Big worries about the NHS, fury at the Junior Doctors being treated so shabbily by the then Con government.
However dismay too at their GP practices where they blamed the GPs more than the government.

I really think with going to pharmacists now, I doubt the GPs on what action they're taking here are not going to impact as much as they believe it will.
Plus it will only add to the massive disappointment their patients already hold as to them.
In probably the majority of areas.

[Livia]

I can accept there's problems for GPs but I really don't think they have the sympathy or support that the Nurses and Junior Doctors have/had.

All I've seen from during and since the COVID pandemic and heard from many others is massive disappointment and anger with GP service.
There are areas I guess where it's better but the whole system of appointments and then even actually getting to be face to face with the GP has become a battle not routine and one more likely to be lost than won.

Canvassing during the election, I found from all but a small number,.
Big worries about the NHS, fury at the Junior Doctors being treated so shabbily by the then Con government.
However dismay too at their GP practices where they blamed the GPs more than the government.

I really think with going to pharmacists now, I doubt the GPs on what action they're taking here are not going to impact as much as they believe it will.
Plus it will only add to the massive disappointment their patients already hold as to them.
In probably the majority of areas.

What Joey said...

[Vanessa]

I try to avoid going to the gp these days. I only go when they ask me to go really.

[arista]

An older Lady
has a cataract in her right Eye
she was told to wait up to 3, years from her GP

She Phoned Ch5HD AM Live

Then the hospital phoned her for an offer of £500
to have her Eye done privately
Tomorrow.

She is angry
as she does not have that cash spare.

[arista]

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[Mystic Mock]

Labour needs to start funding our local GP's.

Never **** around with Medical services.

[GoldHeart]

Labour needs to start funding our local GP's.

Never **** around with Medical services.

Labour doesn't care

[Redway]

Half of them are useless anyway.

[Mystic Mock]

Labour doesn't care

Well hopefully that's not the case.

[joeysteele]

I actually don't know of anyone in my area or friends and family around the Country.
Who have noticed any difference by this action, as to what GPs have been doing since the COVID pandemic anyhow.

They seemed to either come to a halt then and more going slow.
However have never improved since.

[DemRed]

GP's are private companies who are they striking against? Themselves?

They used to be, but not anymore. Most GP practices are now bought and sold by large corporations.