Tuesday, April 26, 2016

'Junior doctors are struggling for a dying NHS': healthcare workers speak out

They are fighting for a dying NHS and affordable working conditions’


What will you be doing on strike day? I’ll be the sole doctor covering the department (usually 8 doctors).


How do you feel about junior doctors staging a full walkout? They are fighting for a dying NHS and reasonable working conditions. This is the culmination of years of abuse. My take home salary is 10 percent lower than it was in the year 2004 but I have moved from being a senior house officer to a consultant. My contracted hours are exactly the same. Juniors today are so poorly paid they cannot expect to pay off their medical school debts for many years and purchasing a home is utter fantasy in the city of London.


‘I do not support any strike by frontline health staff’


What will you be doing on strike day? We are already ready for making sure our services are covered by senior clinicians on both days. We will be developing how many doctors attend on each day and informing NHS England.

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