Almost 80% of junior doctors took part in all-out strike, NHS says

cherub

Almost 90% of doctors at some hospitals refuse to work as battle with health secretary escalates and PM criticises withdrawal of emergency care

Junior doctors hold a 48 hour all out strike calling for more pay and better working conditions. Junior doctors march across Westminster Bridge during a protest in London, Britain, 26 April 2016. Junior doctors are holding a 48 hour all out strike calling for more pay and better working conditions, as the contract dispute with the government continues to drag on.
Junior doctors march across Westminster Bridge during their strike calling for more pay and better working conditions.

Four out of five junior doctors took part in the first all-out strike in NHS history on Tuesday, as David Cameron blasted their withdrawal of emergency care.


At some hospitals, almost 90% of junior doctors refused to work between 8am and 5pm, in an escalation of their campaign against the new contract that Jeremy Hunt intends to impose on them.

However, most hospitals coped well and did not experience any problems, with senior medics taking on duties usually undertaken by their junior colleagues. A&E units were quieter than usual as patients with minor ailments heeded NHS warnings to stay away.

Junior doctors – all those below the level of consultant – will stage a second all-out strike on Wednesday during the same hours.

Dr Johann Malawana, chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said: “The overwhelming turnout at almost 150 picket lines across England today shows the strength of feeling amongst junior doctors against the government’s plans. Tens of thousands protested against a contract they believe is unfair and damaging to patient care in the long term.”

None of England’s 156 acute hospital trusts reported any patient safety incident or sudden inability to cope with demand that might have led them to ask striking doctors to return to work, allaying fears that patients might come to harm because of the absence of so many medics.


Junior doctors: ‘None of us want to strike’
Figures released by NHS England showed that 21,608 junior doctors – 78% of those due to work – participated in the industrial action. It claimed that this was down from the 88% who did so on each day during the previous strikeon 6-8 April. However, the 88% figure raised questions as NHS England had previously said that almost half of doctors had worked on those days.


Turnout was highest at Barts Health, the largest trust in the NHS. The London trust said that 88.4% of its 1,000 junior doctors had joined the walkout.

After four previous strikes, Tuesday was the first one to affect areas of life-or-death treatment, such as A&E, maternity and intensive care. At the two hospitals run by King’s College hospital trust in south London, none of the 13 trainee obstetricians and gynaecologists turned up and nor did any of the 26 junior doctors working in its critical care unit. However, 16 of the 22 junior doctors in its emergency department did work as normal.

At the South London and Maudsley NHS foundation trust, only 40 out of 246 trainees worked – an 84% turnout. Turnout elsewhere was 81% in Ipswich, 74% at the Royal Free in London, 64% in Blackpool and Stoke and 63% in Bournemouth.

Will Denby, a GP registrar in Hampshire, said that he opposed the action because withdrawal of care in emergency areas of care threatened the bond of trust between doctors and patients.


“The strike is now wholly unfortunate, regrettable and damaging. I would like to hope that all parties wish it had never come to this – no one will come out of it well,” he said.

“I don’t support withholding emergency care. I don’t think it directly causes harm, or affects safety, but it affects our relationship with the people we serve. Our profession has to have trust with the society we serve at its heart, and while I agree there is a longer-term view in all-out striking, for me a line is crossed. I would support continued striking, but not over acute and emergency care.”

NHS services ran smoothly, although 13,000 operations and 113,000 outpatient appointments had already been cancelled as a direct result of this week’s strikes. Surgeons reported that very few trainees had turned up for work and that consultants had coped well with their workload.

The prime minister said the unprecedented action was unjustified because junior doctors had been promised a 13.5% rise in their basic pay to make up for having to work more antisocial shifts.


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He defended the health secretary’s robust handling of the eight-month-old dispute, which has caused disquiet in the medical profession. “There is a good contract on the table, with a 13.5% increase in basic pay – 75% of doctors will be better off with this contract,” Cameron told ITN.


“It’s the wrong thing to do to go ahead with this strike, and particularly to go ahead with the withdrawal of emergency care – that is not right.”

A new opinion poll shows that 59% of people across the UK support the junior doctors, even though they have resorted to all-out strikes to try to thwart Hunt. However, the survey by OnePulse, a mobile app, found that support had fallen by six percentage points from the 65% backing recorded last month.

P/S apa khabar doctor2 malaysia kat sana?

  

cherub

Pada yg malas membaca houseman and junior docs kat UK strike. Tapi kali ni effect critical services. 80 to 90% tak datang kerja sebab contactual disputes. Gaji naik sikit tapi allowances kena potong. So purata its a loss.

dcruins

Apa nak buat, ni laaaa problem policy yang diambil oleh EU, policy Austerity yang berjimat gilerrrr dikalangan negara2 EU.....

sebab tu growth negara2 EU dah melambat, inflation pun dah jadi deflation, inflation ni penting gak sebagai penyumbang besar keuntungan syarikat2 dan business, bila dah deflation, growth akan automatik terbantut, sebab tu tak hairan UK nak keluar dari EU supaya kuasa menentukan policy central bank dah tak payah terlalu terikut-ikut dengan keputusan policy EU di Brussells jerrr setiap masa.....

dcruins

Kalau zaman the late Margaret Thatcher ni, dah disapu bersih dah demonstrator ni semua....

cherub

dcruins replied at 27-4-2016 06:14 PM
Apa nak buat, ni laaaa problem policy yang diambil oleh EU, policy Austerity yang berjimat gilerrrr  ...

Heran ya. Bomb orang lain ada pulak funds. Nak bayar doctors tak ada duit pulak.

cherub

dcruins replied at 27-4-2016 06:22 PM
Kalau zaman the late Margaret Thatcher ni, dah disapu bersih dah demonstrator ni semua....

The witch is dead kekdahnya...

dcruins

cherub replied at 27-4-2016 07:53 PM
Heran ya. Bomb orang lain ada pulak funds. Nak bayar doctors tak ada duit pulak.

Aku pun tak pasti budget UK untuk doctor2 nya, mungkin banyak yang dipotong sebab Austerity measure yang diambil gomen2 negara2 EU.

cherub

dcruins replied at 27-4-2016 07:56 PM
Aku pun tak pasti budget UK untuk doctor2 nya, mungkin banyak yang dipotong sebab Austerity measur ...

Rata2 loss of income 30%.
Ramai jugak lari kerja kat oz.
Oz nyampah dgn POMs yg datang kerja sana haha nasibla.
Austerity measure baguih cuma dr gen y kebawah mana boleh terima. Kalau kita baca article tu the consultants masih kerja. *opkos consultants lain category* but work culture is very different.
This time a bit severe sbb emergency gynae icu semua strike. Maybe its pushing things a bit too far. After all one took an oath.

dcruins

cherub replied at 27-4-2016 08:01 PM
Rata2 loss of income 30%.
Ramai jugak lari kerja kat oz.
Oz nyampah dgn POMs yg datang kerja sa ...

Austerity measure ni dah berjalan lama dah di EU sejak Greece default, masih belum nampak lagi kejayaan yang ketara, banyak budget negara kena potong....

Aku ada terbaca satu artikel di FB World Economic Forum yang bercakap tentang fungsi central bank hari ini yang semakin tak berkesan atau dah hilang fungsi untuk mengawal sistem monetary seluruh dunia, banyak gak yang menentang Austerity measure ni, budget kena potong sampai rakyat sendiri menjadi mangsa. Syarikat2 dan industry pun tak dapat naikkan gaji sebab economy tak berkembang, steady tapi tak berkembang.

finesse

Katanya protes jalanan ini tak bertamadun, pprt dan primitif. Katanya laa

dcruins

finesse replied at 27-4-2016 08:19 PM
Katanya protes jalanan ini tak bertamadun, pprt dan primitif. Katanya laa

kalau ditanya kepada the Late Margaret Thatcher di era nya, mungkin dia angguk setuju.....

TravellingBear

finesse replied at 27-4-2016 08:19 PM
Katanya protes jalanan ini tak bertamadun, pprt dan primitif. Katanya laa

Kannnn hahahah


Bila kokosen buat senyap je memasing

cherub

TravellingBear replied at 27-4-2016 08:27 PM
Kannnn hahahah

Kokesen dr pulak tu. Iols wondering yg tinggal kerja jugak tu asians ke?

cherub

dcruins replied at 27-4-2016 08:15 PM
Austerity measure ni dah berjalan lama dah di EU sejak Greece default, masih belum nampak lagi kej ...

Greece i think was an experiment.
Hatta US yg hutang beratus trillion tak bengkrap tetiba greece bengkrap. Greenback ni harapkan perception dan us militiary terrorism aje to prop it up. Bila ada negara yg elak pakai greenback maka US pun terpaksa "introduce" democracy to them.
China and Russia katanya nak trade in renmibi and gold. US sure fuming mad.
UK pulak bukan ada asset sgt. Segala kekayaan Queen yg pegang. UK is in bad shape sgt2. Dgn loan default, rumah langsung tak mampumilik for first time buyers tapi masih ala2 EU. So far gomen dia masih ctrl cost of living but let us see how long. Maybe they have to help US introduce democracy somewhere pulak pasni.

mbhcsf

dcruins replied at 27-4-2016 06:22 PM
Kalau zaman the late Margaret Thatcher ni, dah disapu bersih dah demonstrator ni semua....

eh u know, yups di sebalik Maggie Thatcher ni semua , yes kalau kita sembang dengan locals atau natives yg dah berumur 50++ yes , depa kalau sebut nama Thatcher depa memang bagi negative remarks...especially when you are talking about her ? treatment on those poor coal miners
depa macam tak keen on her sebab layanan dia, ada sat ketiak i tak yahu peristiwa mana this one guy talked about Thatcher panggil tentera  mana ntah untuk halang demonstration para pekerja lombong zaman  80s lah, i pun tak leh relate sangat sebab i tak tahu policy dia ...i know her  1989 sebelum John major then hal iraq gate hahahah

shamsadis

Ramai ummah tanah air nak kerja sana medik2 kelulusan Mesir

FOTHER-MUCKER

I think they were justified as the government did not keep it promise.