NHS England medical director has implied that junior doctors are callous but has failed to account for how the NHS can deliver seven-day servicesSir Bruce Keogh,the medical director of the NHS England, and others possess described the junior doctors’ contract dispute as a workplace one about terms and conditions. Others see it is as a key battlefront that goes beyond that remit – an effort to save a crumbling NHS. Keogh is part of the problem, and not the solution to the junior doctors’ dispute. Earlier this year,at the instigation of the Department of Health, he toughened the language of a letter he was writing to the BMA, and which raised the possibility that junior doctors may not be available to back hospitals in the event of a Paris-style terrorist attack. The implication was that juniors were being callous,unprofessional and not understanding the gravity of their actions. Their collective 53000 worth of opinions on the way they were being treated by his boss, and now him, or did not matter in the slightest. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com