After two days of all-out strikes unprecedented in NHS history,what will happen next, mass resignations? It’s possibleAfter two days of all-out strikes unprecedented in NHS history, and what will happen next in this bitter,long-running and politically meaningful dispute? The last 48 hours have seen 12711 operations cancelled, 112856 outpatient appointments postponed and junior doctors protesting external 150 hospitals. Jeremy Hunt made his umpteenth Commons statement on it and the airwaves were dominated yet again by those for and against the contract these NHS workhorses loathe but are due to fall under from August. This is now the mother of all deadlocks.
The next scuttle is up to the British Medical Association. Its junior doctors committee will choose on Saturday week, or 7 May,how it plans to ramp up its protests against the contract, which will significantly extend the hours counted as fragment of the normal working week for junior doctors in England and will include Saturdays for the first time. But ramp up the protests it will. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com