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Originally Posted by joeysteele
I am today going to support my Cousin for a few hours who is on strike and who is a Junior Doctor.
Jeremy Hunt is a total disgrace and so is this PM for allowing him to be too.
I hope people stick with the Junior Doctors as to support in the main,this contract should not be imposed,no way.
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the doctors will have blood on their hands as will hunt
I am against this strike. Innocent people will suffer and possibly die. Both sides should be ashamed its come to this. This macho posturing will not move anything forward either. A huge part of the problem undiscussed is the 2004 contract that allos 90% of gp's to not work out of hours at all, evenings or weekends. Thus putting so much more pressure on hospital doctors.
Another issue in wales we seem very complacent and a little smug over this imo....the reality is, in wales our waiting times are behind England on almost all areas, in some cases a long way behind...Behind in diagnosis and in treatment and operations... from heart surgery, to cancer overall, head injuries, pneumonia, hernias. We are marginally quicker dealing with kidney transplants and we have free prescriptions, everything else we are behind. Hip operations average 3 times as long waiting as in England, the wait can be between 9 months and up to 2 years in some cases, Our ambulance waiting times are also behind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35364644
You can also choose a hospital in England online which is a brilliant way to make the system more flexible to the needs of the patients....why on earth don't we have that in wales? why on earth aren't we even talking about it? This system looks brilliant
http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/902.aspx...CategoryID=162
Wales under labour, has a very rigid out of date booking system. this is the same for ambulances. I recall one ambulance driver collected me to go to hospital one day. I told him Id rung to cancel. he came back the next week I told him again id cancelled I don't need any ambulance any more. he said it was easier for the ambulance driver to turn up at the addresses rather than try and cancel it as the cancellation process was so complex?
INSANE
I fear the people running nhs wales are complacent , my little dealings with the trust left me with zero confidence in those people in charge