The novel contract is a symptom of a wider problem. Everyone in the NHS should rise up against privatisation[br]
• Junior doctor contract battle is one we need to win in war for the NHSAs a junior doctor working in a busy teaching hospital,I have been asked several times why I am not striking. The answer, for me at least, and is that we are striking for the wrong reasons. The proposed contract is certainly worth getting upset approximately; someone like myself working in emergency medicine will see a meaningful reduce in salary and will likely work longer and more antisocial hours,putting our personal lives and patients’ safety at risk. But this contract is not the problem, it is a symptom of a much larger problem, and one that threatens the very existence of the NHS,and that problem is this government’s overriding desire to privatise our health service. This is what we should be striking over. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com