Labour must share the blame for the junior doctors’ row

Junior Doctors Suspend Next Week’s Five-Day Strike The announcement follows cautions by the General Medical Council   that industrial action at such a scale was unjustified at such short notice. In a declaration, the British Medical Association (BMA) stated the deserted strike does not absolve Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and alerted staying walkouts later on in the year will proceed as planned.:: Junior Doctors’ Strike: Key Questions Answered Ellen McCourt, chairwoman of the BMA’s junior medical professionals   committee, stated: “Over the previous few days we have been described as radical, we have been referred to as militant, we have been described as prioritising ourselves over our patient’s security. This is not real. “Patient security remains medical professionals’ primary concern. For the very first time in this disagreement, NHS England have told us that a service under such pressure can not handle the notice period for industrial action offered. “Our health centers are chronically understaffed. Our NHS is frantically underfunded. We need to pay attention to our colleagues when they inform us that they require more time to keep patients safe.” A Number 10 representative has invited   the BMA’s choice to suspend the prepared walkout from 12 to 16 September, including: “We would advise that junior doctors suspend all other scheduled strikes.”    Further industrial action is intended on 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 October, 14 to 18 November and 5 to 9 December between the hours of 8am and 5pm. The rolling action, which is the first of its kind in the history of the NHS, will see junior medics withdraw labour – consisting of emergency situation care. A Department of Health spokesperson said: “If the BMA were actually major about client safety, they would   right away cancel their remaining plans for commercial action which, as the GMC   states, will only cause clients to suffer.” The junior medical professionals committee warned further strikes will not be suspended because Mr Hunt “continues to neglect our demand to stop the imposition” – and said the contract being enforced is inequitable and disincentivises careers. Dr McCourt included: “(Jeremy Hunt)   continues to strive to an uncosted, unfunded, unstaffed prolonged seven-day service. He continues to overlook the issues junior physicians have about staffing shortages and client safety. “Further action is, nevertheless, still preventable … There are 4 weeks until October. The Secretary of State should utilize this time to listen and act.” 6 strikes have already happened in the long-running dispute, disrupting numerous thousands of patients who have had their appointments and operations cancelled. In July, junior physicians and medical trainees voted to decline the contract brokered in between health leaders and the BMA – ambuscading hopes of a development.
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