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| Junior doctors strike for third time over new contract - as it happened | |
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| 12.57pm GMT | |
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| As most of the pickets are winding up, we’re going to close the blog now. Thanks for reading and for all the comments. | |
| 12.42pm GMT | 12.42pm GMT |
| 12:42 | 12:42 |
| There appears to be far flung support for the industrial action. | There appears to be far flung support for the industrial action. |
| Thank you to the doctors in Pakistan supporting #JuniorDoctorsStrike in the UK. @TheBMA #juniordoctors #NHS pic.twitter.com/iC6uMEhPax | Thank you to the doctors in Pakistan supporting #JuniorDoctorsStrike in the UK. @TheBMA #juniordoctors #NHS pic.twitter.com/iC6uMEhPax |
| 12.25pm GMT | 12.25pm GMT |
| 12:25 | 12:25 |
| Aisha Gani | Aisha Gani |
| On Whitechapel Road, outside the Royal London hospital, doctors of a wide variety of backgrounds on strike gathered with creative signs and picket biscuits and stood with clipboards to gauge the reaction of the public. Junior doctors stood at the kerb of the busy road with a megaphone, jumped and chanted “save our NHS”. Cars, white vans, delivery trucks, and even buses beeped support. | On Whitechapel Road, outside the Royal London hospital, doctors of a wide variety of backgrounds on strike gathered with creative signs and picket biscuits and stood with clipboards to gauge the reaction of the public. Junior doctors stood at the kerb of the busy road with a megaphone, jumped and chanted “save our NHS”. Cars, white vans, delivery trucks, and even buses beeped support. |
| Never seen something like this before: cars, delivery vans, buses beeping support for doctors on Whitechapel road pic.twitter.com/VIBdGuZRm3 | Never seen something like this before: cars, delivery vans, buses beeping support for doctors on Whitechapel road pic.twitter.com/VIBdGuZRm3 |
| A cyclist rang his bell is support as he rode past, and an elderly man with a flat cap said: “Good luck guys”. | A cyclist rang his bell is support as he rode past, and an elderly man with a flat cap said: “Good luck guys”. |
| Creative signs, picket biscuits and clipboards to gage the reaction of the public on #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/lpzuvyX5WI | Creative signs, picket biscuits and clipboards to gage the reaction of the public on #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/lpzuvyX5WI |
| Hannah Gordon held her placard that her two young children helped to decorate. The experienced registrar said when on call she was so busy she didn’t even have time to use the toilet. | Hannah Gordon held her placard that her two young children helped to decorate. The experienced registrar said when on call she was so busy she didn’t even have time to use the toilet. |
| Hannah Gordon a registrar has two young children. Says so busy when on-call she doesn't even have time to pee pic.twitter.com/9pqFnAGsYQ | Hannah Gordon a registrar has two young children. Says so busy when on-call she doesn't even have time to pee pic.twitter.com/9pqFnAGsYQ |
| 12.19pm GMT | 12.19pm GMT |
| 12:19 | 12:19 |
| Junior doctors told the Guardian what they want to say to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in this video: | Junior doctors told the Guardian what they want to say to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in this video: |
| Dear @Jeremy_Hunt, junior doctors have a message for you #JuniorDoctorsStrikehttps://t.co/KpTJL04EiK | Dear @Jeremy_Hunt, junior doctors have a message for you #JuniorDoctorsStrikehttps://t.co/KpTJL04EiK |
| 12.06pm GMT | 12.06pm GMT |
| 12:06 | 12:06 |
| In this video Hannah Barham-Brown says an appointment she has been waiting for six months for an appointment for a condition which means she’s in pain most of the time was cancelled, but she is not angry that the junior doctors are striking. | In this video Hannah Barham-Brown says an appointment she has been waiting for six months for an appointment for a condition which means she’s in pain most of the time was cancelled, but she is not angry that the junior doctors are striking. |
| I’m actually very grateful to them because I know that the main reason they’re going on strike is to protect the safety and the care of patients like me. I’m also really grateful that they’re going out on strike because I’m about to qualify as a junior doctor ...In the last eight years and all of that training time I have taken a total of three weeks off ...three weeks [despite] the death of two siblings and the development of a disability and that’s all I have taken away from the NHS in order to recover so I could do my job better. | I’m actually very grateful to them because I know that the main reason they’re going on strike is to protect the safety and the care of patients like me. I’m also really grateful that they’re going out on strike because I’m about to qualify as a junior doctor ...In the last eight years and all of that training time I have taken a total of three weeks off ...three weeks [despite] the death of two siblings and the development of a disability and that’s all I have taken away from the NHS in order to recover so I could do my job better. |
| She describes the contract Jeremy Hunt is imposing as “utterly terrifying for my professional future”. | She describes the contract Jeremy Hunt is imposing as “utterly terrifying for my professional future”. |
| My hospital appt cancelled today, due to #JuniorDoctorsStrike - here's why I'm not angry. https://t.co/aG5HtWrzj0 pic.twitter.com/keDjq7dVeI | My hospital appt cancelled today, due to #JuniorDoctorsStrike - here's why I'm not angry. https://t.co/aG5HtWrzj0 pic.twitter.com/keDjq7dVeI |
| 11.54am GMT | 11.54am GMT |
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| Junior doctors perform a somewhat out of tune version of With a Little Help from My Friends: | Junior doctors perform a somewhat out of tune version of With a Little Help from My Friends: |
| Striking junior doctors in #Bradford pay tribute to Sir George Martin with a classic Beatles hit. via @reporterich pic.twitter.com/09SRhZ21pD | Striking junior doctors in #Bradford pay tribute to Sir George Martin with a classic Beatles hit. via @reporterich pic.twitter.com/09SRhZ21pD |
| 11.40am GMT | 11.40am GMT |
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| As well as picketing, striking junior doctors are doing other things with their time today. | As well as picketing, striking junior doctors are doing other things with their time today. |
| There are around 25 free lifesaving for parents being held by junior doctors across England as part of an initiative called #littlelifesavers. | There are around 25 free lifesaving for parents being held by junior doctors across England as part of an initiative called #littlelifesavers. |
| Babysitting for #littlelifesavers #JuniorDoctorsStrike #tooting pic.twitter.com/HVZCLbb6UQ | Babysitting for #littlelifesavers #JuniorDoctorsStrike #tooting pic.twitter.com/HVZCLbb6UQ |
| As on the days of previous strikes, some junior doctors are giving blood. | As on the days of previous strikes, some junior doctors are giving blood. |
| #dearmrhunt junior doctors are lifesavers every day of the week #giveblood #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/qQrlBmDp6N | #dearmrhunt junior doctors are lifesavers every day of the week #giveblood #JuniorDoctorsStrike pic.twitter.com/qQrlBmDp6N |
| 11.26am GMT | 11.26am GMT |
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| You know you’re getting old when your doctor is younger than you. | You know you’re getting old when your doctor is younger than you. |
| Young supporter on the picket line at UCLH #juniorcontract pic.twitter.com/SetgsyoBpE | Young supporter on the picket line at UCLH #juniorcontract pic.twitter.com/SetgsyoBpE |
| 11.17am GMT | 11.17am GMT |
| 11:17 | 11:17 |
| Rosalyn Roden, for the Guardian, has been talking to striking junior doctors outside the Royal Liverpool university hospital, where members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association, the GMB and Unite have shown up to show their solidarity. | Rosalyn Roden, for the Guardian, has been talking to striking junior doctors outside the Royal Liverpool university hospital, where members of the Merseyside Pensioners Association, the GMB and Unite have shown up to show their solidarity. |
| A spokesman for the trust said they cancelled 20 appointments this morning. | A spokesman for the trust said they cancelled 20 appointments this morning. |
| Dr Aaron Borbora, deputy chair of the BMA junior doctors committee, and radiology registrar at Leighton hospital, in Crewe, said: | Dr Aaron Borbora, deputy chair of the BMA junior doctors committee, and radiology registrar at Leighton hospital, in Crewe, said: |
| I think the first stage is we need to be treated as a valued part of the team. And allow us to care for the patients in the best way possible. The government needs to stop mistreating us and talk to us in a sensible way. | I think the first stage is we need to be treated as a valued part of the team. And allow us to care for the patients in the best way possible. The government needs to stop mistreating us and talk to us in a sensible way. |
| None of us want to take strike action. It is not something we have come to lightly. We don’t feel that we have any other option. | None of us want to take strike action. It is not something we have come to lightly. We don’t feel that we have any other option. |
| I have sat down with the government so I have lived and breathed this for the last few months. The best hope of change is if the government withdraws imposition and starts to address our concerns seriously. | I have sat down with the government so I have lived and breathed this for the last few months. The best hope of change is if the government withdraws imposition and starts to address our concerns seriously. |
| Alice Holmes, 29, a junior doctor in Liverpool voices her feelings about the contract due to be imposed in August pic.twitter.com/AhoojN3q3B | Alice Holmes, 29, a junior doctor in Liverpool voices her feelings about the contract due to be imposed in August pic.twitter.com/AhoojN3q3B |
| Navdeep Upile, 34, an ENT registrar expresses why he is striking today pic.twitter.com/CLa4g436S6 | Navdeep Upile, 34, an ENT registrar expresses why he is striking today pic.twitter.com/CLa4g436S6 |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 11.45am GMT | at 11.45am GMT |
| 11.03am GMT | 11.03am GMT |
| 11:03 | 11:03 |
| Kailash Chand, deputy chair of the BMA, has written for the Guardian’s Healthcare network, accusing Jeremy Hunt of “misusing statistics as a way to impose the new junior doctor contract”. The health secretary, he says, would be in front of a fitness to practise tribunal if he were a medic. | Kailash Chand, deputy chair of the BMA, has written for the Guardian’s Healthcare network, accusing Jeremy Hunt of “misusing statistics as a way to impose the new junior doctor contract”. The health secretary, he says, would be in front of a fitness to practise tribunal if he were a medic. |
| Chand writes: | Chand writes: |
| Hunt has managed to insult and alienate NHS staff across the board. To lose a large swath of junior doctors in the early stages of their careers would be a disaster for the NHS. And the number of GPs and consultants who are considering retiring early is staggeringly high and a huge worry for the NHS and patient care. The health service could be left with a shortage of clinicians, with the remaining doctors spread too thinly. We will have fewer staff in an even less safe NHS. | Hunt has managed to insult and alienate NHS staff across the board. To lose a large swath of junior doctors in the early stages of their careers would be a disaster for the NHS. And the number of GPs and consultants who are considering retiring early is staggeringly high and a huge worry for the NHS and patient care. The health service could be left with a shortage of clinicians, with the remaining doctors spread too thinly. We will have fewer staff in an even less safe NHS. |
| 10.55am GMT | 10.55am GMT |
| 10:55 | 10:55 |
| Aisha Gani | Aisha Gani |
| Junior doctors in East London are in high spirits but adamant they must win against the health secretary Jeremy Hunt on the contracts issue. They pounded the pavement in Whitechapel handing out leaflets to passersby. | Junior doctors in East London are in high spirits but adamant they must win against the health secretary Jeremy Hunt on the contracts issue. They pounded the pavement in Whitechapel handing out leaflets to passersby. |
| Jackie Applebee is a GP and has been active in support of the junior doctors strike. She said: | Jackie Applebee is a GP and has been active in support of the junior doctors strike. She said: |
| I think it’s really important they win this dispute. It’s outrageous the government is implying it’s a pay rise when the number of unsocial hours is going up. | I think it’s really important they win this dispute. It’s outrageous the government is implying it’s a pay rise when the number of unsocial hours is going up. |
| Jackie a GP fears clocks are turning back. As a junior doctor in late 80s she worked 100hr weeks, which was unsafe pic.twitter.com/prVow193te | Jackie a GP fears clocks are turning back. As a junior doctor in late 80s she worked 100hr weeks, which was unsafe pic.twitter.com/prVow193te |
| Applebee said Saturdays will be treated like a Wednesday and added the problem was that “the safety mechanisms are going to be relaxed”. | Applebee said Saturdays will be treated like a Wednesday and added the problem was that “the safety mechanisms are going to be relaxed”. |
| “There is a workforce shortage and so more rotated and more tired,” she said. | “There is a workforce shortage and so more rotated and more tired,” she said. |
| She said she was fearful the clocks would be turned back for junior doctors to how it was for her when she was a junior doctor in the late 1980s. | She said she was fearful the clocks would be turned back for junior doctors to how it was for her when she was a junior doctor in the late 1980s. |
| It was usual to do Monday to Friday and often doctors spent every third night on call. If you were on call on the weekend you would be covering from a normal day on Friday until the end of a normal day on Monday. | It was usual to do Monday to Friday and often doctors spent every third night on call. If you were on call on the weekend you would be covering from a normal day on Friday until the end of a normal day on Monday. |
| There was very little sleep while on obstetrics - there could be a beep anytime. | There was very little sleep while on obstetrics - there could be a beep anytime. |
| Applebee said she often did a 100 hour week and feared current doctors will face the same. | Applebee said she often did a 100 hour week and feared current doctors will face the same. |
| I remember how tired I would be and we risk going back to that. | I remember how tired I would be and we risk going back to that. |
| There’s a workforce crisis and doctors are going to Australia and GPs are retiring and people aren’t going into this field. | There’s a workforce crisis and doctors are going to Australia and GPs are retiring and people aren’t going into this field. |
| Who will look after us? The public need to understand this. The message to the public is the government is doing this to junior doctors and if they win they will do he same to nurses and GPs, going towards a system like (the United States of) America while America is moving away from the system. | Who will look after us? The public need to understand this. The message to the public is the government is doing this to junior doctors and if they win they will do he same to nurses and GPs, going towards a system like (the United States of) America while America is moving away from the system. |
| We are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and we’ll end up with a two tiered NHS. | We are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and we’ll end up with a two tiered NHS. |
| Standing in the rain in his scrubs, Edward, who has been a paediatrician for eleven years, said it would soon be time to escalate action. “We have to win” he said. | Standing in the rain in his scrubs, Edward, who has been a paediatrician for eleven years, said it would soon be time to escalate action. “We have to win” he said. |
| Edward has been a junior doctor for 11 years and is a paediatrician. He said it was time to escalate action pic.twitter.com/aChSARteoH | Edward has been a junior doctor for 11 years and is a paediatrician. He said it was time to escalate action pic.twitter.com/aChSARteoH |