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Originally Posted by joeysteele
Consultants will be covering care during the strike, are there really people who think Consultants will be unable to do that.
Since so many are worried about junior Doctors not being there for their care then maybe they should appreciate them far more and direct the blame to where it really lies, this incompetent and pathetic health secretary ad this govt.
If Hunt gets to impose this contract then there will be a great deal more fewer junior Doctors in the NHS as most will likely clear off anyway and leave for other Countries or other professions.
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That is plain wrong and way too simplistic. the welsh nhs under labour is years behind England under the tories and has less funding
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
We have a very rigid out of date booking system.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