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| Junior doctors strike for third time over new contract - live updates | Junior doctors strike for third time over new contract - live updates |
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| 9.52am GMT | |
| 09:52 | |
| It’s a dog’s life being a junior doctor. | |
| Buster supports #JuniorDoctorsStrike @Bath_Doctors and he'd like @Jeremy_Hunt to listen before he gets any wetter pic.twitter.com/fOxjymD363 | |
| 9.49am GMT | |
| 09:49 | |
| This tweet is from the chair of the BMA junior doctors committee. | |
| UCH this morning in the wet weather. Lots of support from public and staff pic.twitter.com/M9Aif1KcaQ | |
| 9.47am GMT | |
| 09:47 | |
| This is a succinct summary of why the junior doctors are striking: | |
| Quick reminder as to why we are striking (via BMA) pic.twitter.com/NKBeomPT9l | |
| 9.44am GMT | |
| 09:44 | |
| It’s no surprise to find veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner, one of the hardest working politicians, on the picket line. | |
| 84 and on the doctors' picket line. Got to love Dennis Skinner for his commitment pic.twitter.com/ucX7VellIX | |
| 9.41am GMT | |
| 09:41 | |
| Philip Mansell, outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital for the Guardian, writes: | |
| There’s been plenty of support from passersby and those filtering in and out of the hospital. One of the picketers, Dr Ieuan Reece, believes that there will be an outflux of staff from the NHS if the contracts are imposed, and already has medic friends who have applied to work in Australia. | |
| Plenty of support for junior doctors picketing at Chelsea and Westminster hospital this morning @Haroon_Siddique pic.twitter.com/K9I2aiNEn3 | |
| There is support elsewhere for the junior doctors, whether it be from motorists, trade unions or others in the medical profession. | |
| Traffic noise being drowned out by the supportive toots on Leicester inner ring road #notsafenotfair pic.twitter.com/dpjImFWPHx | |
| Standing in #Solidarity with #JuniorDoctors in Manchester #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/zAbK88NXJn | |
| Supporting #JuniorDoctorsStrike at Russells Hall Hospital. Please show your support. pic.twitter.com/UIrOAbzIeQ | |
| Thank you @rcpsych president Prof Sir @WesselyS for paying a visit to the @MaudsleyNHS #JuniorDoctorsStrike @TheBMA pic.twitter.com/woInRuoICF | |
| 9.29am GMT | |
| 09:29 | |
| Aisha Gani | |
| On this drizzly and grey March morning, a dozen doctors stood on the picket line at the London Royal Hospital, Whitechapel, in the east-end. They wore orange hi-vis jackets and held aloft umbrellas as well-wishers passed around home-baked brownies. | |
| About 15 doctors of different specialism on the picket line in the rain. Early days still, they say pic.twitter.com/BJBQGtzPW2 | |
| Arjun Devanesan has been a junior doctor for five years, specialising in anaesthetics. He told the Guardian: | |
| I’m here because i think that we’re sort of behind the times a little bit and the government had been sneaking up on us since 2012 social care act. | |
| It’s Not just about junior doctors but also saving NHS from imploding and becoming economically and socially unviable so that the only solution becomes privatisation. So it’s about stopping this. | |
| Arjun Devanesan in anaesthetics said government has been "sneaking" up on them since 2012 health & social care act pic.twitter.com/Xlf6ADQP1A | |
| Devanesan said that later this afternoon striking doctors from east London hospitals will be gathering at St Paul’s en masse to protest. | |
| He added: | |
| The thing with anathesthtics, it give department cover for so many things and already see gaps in the rotas filled as people aren’t applying for jobs and becoming even more stretched and becoming difficult to match the demand. | |
| Applying for jobs become unattractive a lot of people going abroad, taking time out and changing industry. | |
| I don’t think people really realise surgical lists overrun or cancelled is because physically unsafe when understaffed. | |
| Founded in the 18th century, the hospital, also a large teaching hospital, houses one of London’s busiest paediatric accident and emergency departments. | |
| Also on the picket line was Raoul Li-Everington who has been a junior doctor for seven months and was born at the hospital. He works in Scotland but wanted to show solidarity to NHS colleagues here. | |
| Raoul Li-Everington, working as a junior doctor for seven months, said a demoralised workforce not best start pic.twitter.com/xmIIRZdlII | |
| He said: | |
| I want to specialise in general practice but there’s already a shortage, and then they [patients] go to A&E and struggle a lot. Patients are not seen for hours and it’s a failure for the community and is a fundamental strain. | |
| “I know this has been issue for a long time but need to sort out,” he added. | |
| “One of my patients has been in hospital for four months” he said, explaining the social services were not in place to take care of out patients. | |
| Despite the challenges as soon as he entered the workforce, Li-Everington said: | |
| I couldn’t picture myself doing anything else. I don’t think any doctor goes into it for the money. | |
| The hours are brutal and I don’t have social life but wake up every morning and think ‘Would I rather be behind a desk all day or have real human interaction and work with the smartest people from different specialisms?’ and that’s what drives me. And I don’t want the NHS to implode. | |
| “A demoralising workplace is not best way to start,” he added | |
| 9.19am GMT | 9.19am GMT |
| 09:19 | 09:19 |
| This is one of the best placards/series of placards I’ve seen so far today: | This is one of the best placards/series of placards I’ve seen so far today: |
| Tired doctors make missteaks.#JuniorDoctorsStrike #junioraction @TheBMA pic.twitter.com/RZqcEHIJ9m | Tired doctors make missteaks.#JuniorDoctorsStrike #junioraction @TheBMA pic.twitter.com/RZqcEHIJ9m |
| 9.16am GMT | 9.16am GMT |
| 09:16 | 09:16 |
| Here is NHS England’s advice for patients during the industrial action, although most of it applies everyday. | Here is NHS England’s advice for patients during the industrial action, although most of it applies everyday. |
| #NHS industrial action #Healthcare news update #GP #NHS111 pic.twitter.com/SnAC8mbSnW | #NHS industrial action #Healthcare news update #GP #NHS111 pic.twitter.com/SnAC8mbSnW |
| 9.13am GMT | 9.13am GMT |
| 09:13 | 09:13 |
| The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell visited a picket line in west London this morning. | The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell visited a picket line in west London this morning. |
| Visited the #juniordoctors on picket line this morning outside Hillingdon Hospital to show 100% support from me pic.twitter.com/GbxSbDWKtd | Visited the #juniordoctors on picket line this morning outside Hillingdon Hospital to show 100% support from me pic.twitter.com/GbxSbDWKtd |
| 9.08am GMT | 9.08am GMT |
| 09:08 | 09:08 |
| Phillip Mansell is outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital for the Guardian. | Phillip Mansell is outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital for the Guardian. |
| Eoin Dinneen, senior house officer there, told him that it is “insulting” to be told Saturdays are normal working hours. | Eoin Dinneen, senior house officer there, told him that it is “insulting” to be told Saturdays are normal working hours. |
| Eoin Dinneen explains why he's joined the picket outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital today. @Haroon_Siddique pic.twitter.com/q5OdlRVY1O | Eoin Dinneen explains why he's joined the picket outside Chelsea and Westminster hospital today. @Haroon_Siddique pic.twitter.com/q5OdlRVY1O |
| 9.03am GMT | 9.03am GMT |
| 09:03 | 09:03 |
| Two sisters, one a junior doctor and the other an NHS management trainee, have written about the impact the new contract will have on each other’s life for the Guardian’s Healthcare Network. | Two sisters, one a junior doctor and the other an NHS management trainee, have written about the impact the new contract will have on each other’s life for the Guardian’s Healthcare Network. |
| Anna Babic, the sister who is a management trainee writes: | Anna Babic, the sister who is a management trainee writes: |
| The contract is questionable in terms of workers’ rights. Fragmented shift patterns are already having a huge impact on the health of NHS staff and their families. We already have the challenge of an often overtired, under supported workforce; we should be finding ways to deal with this and reduce sickness rates, decrease reliance on agency staff, and generally make working conditions better, not worse. A tired workforce results in unsafe care and no time to do anything beyond immediate patient survival. Medicine isn’t just about survival, it is far more holistic. | The contract is questionable in terms of workers’ rights. Fragmented shift patterns are already having a huge impact on the health of NHS staff and their families. We already have the challenge of an often overtired, under supported workforce; we should be finding ways to deal with this and reduce sickness rates, decrease reliance on agency staff, and generally make working conditions better, not worse. A tired workforce results in unsafe care and no time to do anything beyond immediate patient survival. Medicine isn’t just about survival, it is far more holistic. |
| 9.00am GMT | 9.00am GMT |
| 09:00 | 09:00 |
| A Mexican wave from strikers in Newcastle. | A Mexican wave from strikers in Newcastle. |
| Rainy #JuniorDoctorsStrike day in #Newcastle - here is a cheery Mexican wave @guardian @krishgm @TheLastLeg pic.twitter.com/6KZsPpJ39z | Rainy #JuniorDoctorsStrike day in #Newcastle - here is a cheery Mexican wave @guardian @krishgm @TheLastLeg pic.twitter.com/6KZsPpJ39z |
| 8.42am GMT | 8.42am GMT |
| 08:42 | 08:42 |
| The Green party is backing the striking junior doctors. The party’s health spokesman, Larry Sanders, who is the brother of US presidential hopeful Bernie, said: | The Green party is backing the striking junior doctors. The party’s health spokesman, Larry Sanders, who is the brother of US presidential hopeful Bernie, said: |
| The hypocrisy of Jeremy Hunt announcing that he was imposing a contract on junior doctors exactly one year after he ‘called time on NHS bullying’ is astounding. Those junior doctors are essential to a functioning NHS and they will go on to become leaders of the service. They need to be treated with the respect that they deserve. | The hypocrisy of Jeremy Hunt announcing that he was imposing a contract on junior doctors exactly one year after he ‘called time on NHS bullying’ is astounding. Those junior doctors are essential to a functioning NHS and they will go on to become leaders of the service. They need to be treated with the respect that they deserve. |
| It is clear to all that Jeremy Hunt’s agenda is to destroy the NHS and to pass it into private hands supported by an insurance scheme. He has gone on record with these views and he is therefore not a fit person to be in charge of the NHS. | It is clear to all that Jeremy Hunt’s agenda is to destroy the NHS and to pass it into private hands supported by an insurance scheme. He has gone on record with these views and he is therefore not a fit person to be in charge of the NHS. |
| It is time for Mr Hunt to go before for he completely destroys the NHS and the good will that it runs on. | It is time for Mr Hunt to go before for he completely destroys the NHS and the good will that it runs on. |
| The junior doctors are fighting for the right to be able to care for us. | The junior doctors are fighting for the right to be able to care for us. |
| Supporting #JuniorDoctorsStrike we stand together to protect our #nhs @TheGreenParty pic.twitter.com/EHe07llMYf | Supporting #JuniorDoctorsStrike we stand together to protect our #nhs @TheGreenParty pic.twitter.com/EHe07llMYf |
| 8.39am GMT | 8.39am GMT |
| 08:39 | 08:39 |
| Lots more pictures are starting to come in from - in some cases very wet - picket lines. | Lots more pictures are starting to come in from - in some cases very wet - picket lines. |
| Determined #juniordoctors on the picket line in #Cheltenham this morning #JuniorDoctorsStrike #notsafenotfair pic.twitter.com/FtOVg7o5cn | Determined #juniordoctors on the picket line in #Cheltenham this morning #JuniorDoctorsStrike #notsafenotfair pic.twitter.com/FtOVg7o5cn |
| Kicking it off at St Barts! #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/3srEdox5AL | Kicking it off at St Barts! #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/3srEdox5AL |
| Today @MaudsleyNHS #juniordoctors begin 48 hours emergency care-only industrial action #JuniorDoctorsStrike. pic.twitter.com/bDsNmcRHQ0 | Today @MaudsleyNHS #juniordoctors begin 48 hours emergency care-only industrial action #JuniorDoctorsStrike. pic.twitter.com/bDsNmcRHQ0 |