BMA Junior Doctors Strike Hospital April 2016 - Watford Hertfordshire England
Channel: Watford Herts London News Videos UK 2024
Date: 06/04/2016

This is the message the  Junior Doctors sent me.

No one wants to strike, however the new contract (only finally published last week) 
1. openly discriminates against women, 
2. Thinly spreads an already stretched 5-workforce over 7 days with no added resources or funds,  
3.  A rota which is inhumane & assumes no entitlement to a life or any rest, 
4. A rota which will not allow continuity of care for our patients, and this is the crux.. 
tired doctors and no continuity of care can only affect patient safety, the very people we care about. 
Mr Hunt has been asked to come and see, AND re-open negotiations.. but he has refused. One has to wonder if this is all in the grand scheme of fragmenting the NHS. 
Please come and support us on the picket?

News Story
Junior doctors have picketed hospitals once more and protesters besieged the Department of Health at the beginning of the fourth strike this year over the new contract being imposed on trainee medics.

The strike has led to 5,165 non-urgent operations being rearranged.
https://watnews.uk/Strike_after_rejection_of_junior_doctors_contract.html 

A petition of more than 120,000 signatures backing the junior doctors in the dispute was delivered to the department on Wednesday. It was accompanied by a rally of junior doctors, other health professionals, members of the Fire Brigades Union.

The BMA said there were nearly 150 picket lines across the country.

While the length of the dispute is testing the appetite of junior doctors for industrial action, many seemed to have had their anger stoked by the publication last week of the DoH’s own analysis of the new contract, which concluded that “while there are features of the new contract that impact disproportionately on women, of which some we expect to be advantageous and others disadvantageous, we do not consider that this would amount to indirect discrimination as the impacts can be comfortably justified”.

“We’re already outnumbered in my department, it’s very male dominated, and the new contract is really going to put smart women off. It’s terrifying, and a slap in the face for women who have worked so hard to get here.”

Jeremy Hunt is facing high court legal action over claims he broke the law and acted “irrationally” by imposing a new contract on NHS junior doctors when he had no power to do so.

Previous Strike Action in Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8RxViuOM3M