Dear Sir
I am responding to what Eastbourne MP Caroline Ansell has said today, as reported by the Eastbourne Independent, to which you have drawn attention.
She has said, ‘It’s very sad it has come to an all-out strike and it’s very worrying that patients could be in danger because I do not think that anyone – junior doctors or the health secretary – would want that”
She added,“I believe that the Government has offered a generous deal designed to make the NHS better and to lessen the hours of junior doctors, but I also feel that many doctors are fearful of these changes, and that has been made clear to me when I have met with them to discuss the issue. t would be good if both sides could get around a table and start talking again’.
No, it’s not about the pay, it’s about not having the resource to cover the aspiration we all applaud.
Can’t do 7 day service with exhausted doctors. It isn’t safe. This dispute serves to put a generation off becoming doctors in the UK.
Stupidity. I remember my wife being so exhausted from shifts at the DGH that the moment the car was on the drive she’d be too tired to get out and would fall asleep there and then.
We want alert doctors making critical decisions. In any other business you’d test the model, as suggested by KPMG, as much as anything you could discount by evidence those criticism but the government refuse to do it. Why? Leads us to suspect they’re worried the doctors are correct.
To get everybody around the table the imposition needs to be off the table.
Stick with doctors everybody, it’s going to be a long fight. I’m not sure these MPs have the stomach for it though, the casualties both real and political will grow and Caroline’s seat is not a safe one.
Yours
David Banks
resident, Coast Road, Pevensey Bay, for many years
editor notes:
David explained to us that his wife was a house Officer, Registrar and GP at Eastbourne District Hospital.
David is now the director of a charity and lives in Buckinghamshire. He is also an adviser to the Friends of Pevensey Bay Library, having helped set up a successful volunteer led local library in his constituency. He is an active supporter of the campaign to see a local library in Pevensey Bay ‘fit for the 21st century’.
