[Kizzy]

I don't celebrate it personally as I think junior DRs are over worked as it is and this will simply make a bad situation worse, leading to more deaths as a result of exhausted staff.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I don't celebrate it personally as I think junior DRs are over worked as it is and this will simply make a bad situation worse, leading to more deaths as a result of exhausted staff.

can you understand simple maths, these doctors are now working LESS hours....because far far more of them work weekends now and the workload is spread. previously too few doctors would accept overtime for money and work too many hours and the majority would work no weekends. this spreads the workloads. junior doctors now work LESS.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by the truth

can you understand simple maths, these doctors are now working LESS hours....because far far more of them work weekends now and the workload is spread. previously too few doctors would accept overtime for money and work too many hours and the majority would work no weekends. this spreads the workloads. junior doctors now work LESS.

Please don't patronise me...
This makes no sense, they do work weekends already, it's simply the expansion of what is considered normal working hrs that is in question.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Please don't patronise me...
This makes no sense, they do work weekends already, it's simply the expansion of what is considered normal working hrs that is in question.

You are wrong. a minority work weekends only, the majority do not. do tens of thousands of people die? why aren't you talking about those tens of thousands of dead innocent people? why didn't the junior doctors ever march for them eh?

[AProducer'sWetDream]

Originally Posted by the truth

You are wrong. a minority work weekends only, the majority do not. do tens of thousands of people die? why aren't you talking about those tens of thousands of dead innocent people? why didn't the junior doctors ever march for them eh?

Do you actually have any proof that the majority of doctors don't work weekends? Because I don't know about you, but I've never been in a hospital on a Sunday and not received anything less than excellent treatment. The same goes for everyone I know. The NHS is already a 24/7 service, and one of the best health services in the world. But if Jeremy Hunt continues to increase the workload, and refuse to allow doctors to earn more money for this extra work, without employing more junior doctors, then the NHS will not be able to function as it does for much longer.