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Originally Posted by joeysteele

Just a thought an old lady said to me while I was standing with my Cousin today out in that freezing cold but in my view right action by him and them..

She said, if there was someone who ran a fleet of taxis and forced their staff to drive cars that were not roadworthy and therefore dangerous,wouldn't the drivers be right to refuse to drive them.
So why when the Junior Doctors and even the Consultants feel this contract is dangerous for both staff and patients should they be forced to work it.


Why does it need to be imposed against the junior Doctors will, there was a suggestion from the main opposition parties put forward,yet this Health secretary dismisses all.

My Cousin for instance cares passionately about his profession, and his Patients.
Consultants were manning the emergency areas today anyway,
The Junior Doctors believe in the long run, this contract will put at risk may Patients and in fact tire them more too.

This is chaos of this govts making and if this contract is imposed, my Cousin is quitting the NHS,,(I actually said I hope he does because if this is imposed then the UK will deserve all it will lose as to lost Doctors,as it seems from listening to other Doctors today many more will then follow doing that too and leave for other Countries or even other professions.

Imposing this contract and not taking the Junior Doctors along with reforms but instead dictating to them, will very likely lose so many Doctors, that Hunt and this govt will be stretched to provide a 4 day week care let alone 7 days a week.

The govt is a disgrace on this issue, I never believed this govt would have the NHS best interests at heart.
Just as was the case with my own Cousin,all the Doctors I stood with today were there with a great sadness that their expertise was being undervalued, unappreciated and their concerns dismissed by one very ignorant man,Jeremy Hunt.

I was really heartened today,both for myself and my Cousin, that of all the people who passed us and commented, and moreso those who stood to talk to us,that only 3 thought the Doctors were wrong.
I thank all powers that be for that.

Also as a footnote, my Cousin as was other Doctors on strike today, joining the picket lines at just after 8am after working all night.
he has tomorrow off but will be back on duty again on Wednesday night again to work all through the night,hardly workshy at all.

You are plain wrong

Labour are a disgrace. the nhs had world record levels of filth and mrsa , the tories have wiped that out
the labour nhs in wales is behind on everything, light years behind the tory nhs in England....hip operations take 2 years in wales, its 4 months maximum in England

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