[the truth]

Originally Posted by joeysteele

No, you are totally wrong,Kizzy is right My Cousin for one has worked many weekends at times as did my other Cousin too before he quit the NHS here and moved to Australia.
They naturally will take turns to do so at present.
Then they would also have to, in this new contract with the same number of Junior Doctors,will have to increase numbers working at weekends at weekends and yet still at the same time do the same cover as to time and care during the week too.

Furthermore you know you are wrong since you and others stated Junior Doctors are really mad at losing the Saturday unsocial hours pay they currently get for working Saturdays.
So clearly they do work weekends when required to.

You are actually more likely not to see a Consultant at all at weekends,hence why just about all follow ups with Consultants are never done on weekends,only very rarely and very few at best.

Furthermore,I collected a lady from Hospital 3 weeks ago on a Saturday and was there 1 hour waiting with her while one of the Junior Doctors on duty did the discharge and instructed what medications she needed to come home with.

You are wrong and most of that is irrelevant. the majority of junior doctors DO NOT WORK WEEKENDS. 90% OF GPS DO NOT WORK WEEKENDS. Ive repeated this to you umpteen times and you still cant understand these basic facts