First time in NHS history

The moment people's operations and pregnancy inductions became in danger of being postponed is the moment it was clear they're in it for the money and nothing else.

The moment people's operations and pregnancy inductions became in danger of being postponed is the moment it was clear they're in it for the money and nothing else.

From the guardian:

Specialists from other hospital departments will be drafted into A&E units on Tuesday and Wednesday to help with the extra pressures caused by junior doctors’ decision to withdraw cover from emergency care areas for the first time in the NHS’s 68-year history.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/24/nhs-hospitals-finalise-plans-to-cope-with-unprecedented-strikes

Opinions? Still support them?

I haven't seen anywhere a substantive critique of the new contract explaining step-by-step what the junior docs disagree with, why they do, and what they would want instead. To me this strike is now based on nothing and is more of a personal vendetta against Hunt than the actual contract. Assuming NHS Employers are correct, the maximum number of working hours are being reduced and the maximum number of consecutive nights will fall too. No one has explained where these extra hours Junior Docs vaguely complain about are coming from. Until that happens I can't support a strike on emergency services.

I haven't seen anywhere a substantive critique of the new contract explaining step-by-step what the junior docs disagree with, why they do, and what they would want instead. To me this strike is now based on nothing and is more of a personal vendetta against Hunt than the actual contract. Assuming NHS Employers are correct, the maximum number of working hours are being reduced and the maximum number of consecutive nights will fall too. No one has explained where these extra hours Junior Docs vaguely complain about are coming from. Until that happens I can't support a strike on emergency services.

I haven't seen anywhere a substantive critique of the new contract explaining step-by-step what the junior docs disagree with, why they do, and what they would want instead. To me this strike is now based on nothing and is more of a personal vendetta against Hunt than the actual contract. Assuming NHS Employers are correct, the maximum number of working hours are being reduced and the maximum number of consecutive nights will fall too. No one has explained where these extra hours Junior Docs vaguely complain about are coming from. Until that happens I can't support a strike on emergency services.