Disabled People in support of the Junior Doctors

Your Name

Why do you support the Junior Doctor’s Strike?

Lyn Matthews

We should value those who care for our sick and dying. Junior doctors saved my dads life. They work hard & Hunt is wrong in the way he is treating such valued professionals. I support them 100%, as do many others. Hunt is a liar & wants to see junior doctors forced into private health care & use it to sell off the NHS. Everyone should support the Junior Doctors because they are valued and needed by us, the patients.

Lyn Bruce

With complex health issues, and under more than 1 consultant and 2 hospitals. I couldn’t afford health insurance. If these Doctors leave I don’t think I’d survive.

Silver Lining

We lose too many medical staff to Australia and New Zealand as it is, why drive more of them there, or to Scotland, Wales or other places? On top of that, there have been many times in my life I have been to A & E or been an in patient in hospital late at night and have been professionally and compassionately looked after by a junior doctor. These ladies and gents have ALREADY been providing the NHS with a 7 day service for many, many years. I feel the compromise offered by the BMA was fair and for the government to impose terms that the BMA and their members are not happy with upon people who save countless lives- especially in the wee small hours every single day in every hospital in the country- is dictatorial, disrespectful and grossly unfair. I also feel that at a time when we are struggling to recruit people to train as doctors and nurses, why do something that will that will make training even less appealing?

Penny

I have had two successful Bowel cancer operations, these couldn’t have happened without junior doctors and all NHS staff, who don’t need Jeremy Hunt’s imposed weekend working contracts

Iain Macleod

I believe Junior Doctors are grossly underpaid considering the responsibility they have to bear and the amount of hours they have to work in the most vitally important lifesaving work they do, I very much doubt if any politicians would stand up to the plate in similar circumstances, please listen to them before the country loses there vital skills, behind them. 100 percent

Jane Gorman

Government proposals would be bad for patient care as well as junior doctors in the long-term.

Joe Whittaker

The decision taken by Mr Hunt to impose a “contract”, is in my view, not an unintended consequence of failed negotiations. The Government is determined to undermine key aspects of the NHS, to create fractures across NHS staff. Today junior doctors, tomorrow consultants etc ; the disharmony being orchestrated, within our major public service makes it more susceptible to the privatisation that is happening in a systematic and deliberate way by thisTory Government. We have to support the BMA, to support The Junior Doctors.

Anon

53000 intelligent thoughtful well educated reasonable people are not all wrong – perhaps Jeremy hunt is?
I had a stroke 3 years ago and was in hospital for 3 months – I have direct first hand knowledge of how hard these people work at the weekends – ancillary staff – radiography / physiotherapist / speech therapy and the consultants are the ones not there at weekends …. Jeremy hunt is trying to stretch the NHS – without more staff or more pay – stretch it any further and he will break it! Jane Speedy

Thomas Sutcliffe

Jeremy Hunt is co-author of a book arguing for the ‘denationalisation’ of the NHS, and every decision he has made as health secretary has been to the detriment of the NHS. People who are tired work less effectively than those who are not, and Jeremy Hunt’s new contracts will mean a lot more tired doctors. A contract only becomes valid once it has been signed, so I suggest that the junior doctors next move should be a universal refusal to sign.

Andrea Mitchell

Because I support a welfare state & am opposed to cuts. I ❤️NHS

Bec Fawcett-Howitt

I support the junior Dr’s 100% because I have a long term degenerating spinal condition. I need the NHS & all the staff because I wouldn’t be able to afford private treatment.
It was a junior Dr & a nurse who saved my daughters life when she was struggling to breath. I need the NHS for her so she can grow up with a superb health service.
A junior Dr treated my Son in A&E after he’d had a fall. The Dr was calming, understanding & was at work on a Saturday morning, treating my child & hundreds of other children.
I need the NHS for him so he can grow up with a superb health service.

We all need the NHS, the dedication of our doctors, nurses, secretaries, porters, consultants, paramedics, everyone who puts effort in to make our NHS great.

Junior Dr’s, I support & stand with you. We will not let Jeremy Hunt & the Tories destroy our health service.

Neil Devlin

The proposed contract would stretch staff & resources too thinly.

Peter

It’s a hellish job very few people can do, certainly not Jeremy Hunt.

Philip Bayes

I fully support the Junior Doctors striking as the Government are putting them in a difficult situation without them having a say by expecting them to work 7 days a week it is putting the NHS & Patients both @ risk, Jeremy Hunt should now do the decent thing & resign as the Health Secretary, who on earth voted this lot back in last May lets push to get Hunt out, Junior Doctors work hard enough already in bad conditions.

Alex Reed

I worked in the NHS for more than 30 years and a member of my family is unwell and in hospital at the moment. Care from junior doctors has been excellent, 7 days a week. NHS staff deserve respect, not Hunt’s contempt.

Mel Errington

Gradually the real reason for the government-driven change of doctors contracts is being exposed – current contracts do not suit the private sector. They must be changed, so that the NHS can be fully privatised.

Peter

I am a retired welfare Sec of Unison for seven years supporting staff cope with bullying by egotistical power hungry management by MP’s, who make arbitary threats (which is a breach of contempt of Parliament) which causes ararm and distress, course of conduct in breach of the Harassment Act 1997, even though the doctors felt alarmed and distressed themselves not being the direct target of the course of conduct, the doctor felt alarmed and distressed over the safety of the patiants in hospital or attending any GP, or any NHS services.

Elen Counsell

I have MS and am totally reliant on my health care team. As well as monthly infusion in hospital and out patients appointment , I regularly attend A&E for emergency treatment for relapses. It is essential that I feel confident that those attending me are rested and equipped to make qui quick and accurate judgements. Any sense that my health care team is working under duress and therefore hampering there. Judgement and demeanour affects my stress levels and therefore exasperates my disease.

Steve D

Junior Drs are the backbone of the NHS and we need to give them an honest remuneration and composite working conditions. We as a country have invested 100s of thousands of pounds to provide the UK with the best Doctors in the world. These junior Doctors have always been there day and night for me with emergency admission to hospital. I support and stand by our Doctors.

Bridget

because I would rather not be treated than be treated by someone so tired they made mistakes

Julie

Because I share their concerns about patient safety and appreciate their skill and dedication for the benefit of all my family. And because I love our NHS

Steven McGuire

they are our future get a grip tories

Bruce Armstrong

As a person with multiple sclerosis, I know how hard Junior Doctors work and how highly their skills and knowledge should be valued.

Pam Sanby

I know Hunt and his side-kicks and cronies are out to destroy OUR #NHS .. It doesn’t belong to the government, it belongs to the people of this country. £30billion of our national insurance contributions are being sat on, they can only be spent on OUR #NHS or welfare. Once the #ToryRentBoys do away with both that money will be lost to us, the people. This blatant attack on the junior doctors is a smokescreen for the inevitable privatisation of OUR #NHS .. Don’t be fooled! The vultures are waiting by the sidelines and please believe me the attack on the junior doctors is another step into handing OUR #NHS over to private companies at knock down prices.. They’ll make it look like they’re swooping in to save the day when OUR #NHS fails … They’re not! This has been going on for years and all the backhanders (oh sorry, donations) to support the Tory party does seem to come in handy!

John

They are working very hard and they are putting vulnerable people at risk with the long hours they are working on now.

Hazel

I love the NHS. I’m proud of it and the fantastic work it does. I believe this junior doctor contract devalues and further demoralises these wonderful and highly motivated staff and is about paving the way for more privatisations – the worst possible outcome.

Sandra Bowes Rennox

We need real talent in doctors but we don’t doctors who are so worn out that it risks our lives. .Hunt doesn’t get it and he needs to stop acting like a school yard bully…We don’t like it. .we’re human beings not cattle.

Zoe Robinson

Doctors work hard, under extreme pressure, to provide an excellent service. We should be supporting them by making their jobs easier and encouraging more people to go into healthcare, not penalising them for political point-scoring.

Hilary Griffin

Junior doctors are highly qualified health professionals who should be paid well for their efforts, experience and expertise. They often remain in post as junior doctors until they are 40 years of age. Doctors frequently marry other hospital doctors. I understand that under the new regime married couples who are both hospital medics will not see much of each other. These incredibly hardworking medics are entitled to a proper family life. If their basic needs are not met they will simply emigrate to countries like Australia where they will enjoy better working conditions. I understand it costs in the region of £250, 000 to train a doctor. We will end up funding the training of medics only to see them emigrate en masse. These medics have my full backing.

Chrissie

I fully support the junior doctors in their justified actions for patient safety, & for an NHS run by concerned health care staff, not by ideologically driven government or profit driven companies.

Daisy May

I was born in May 1945, just as the second world war had ended. It was a home birth as there was no NHS and a midwife was only fetched in dire emergencies because very few could afford to pay for her services. What no one knew then was that I had been born with a congenital dislocated hip, something which is very common and is routinely checked for nowadays, and a “splint” the simple treatment to correct it is usually began fairly soon after it is spotted. However, my dislocated hip was not checked for and went undiagnosed throughout my early development. My parents told me years later that I screamed constantly, and this must have been because my hip was growing in an unnatural position. I do not know all the facts regarding why I did not receive corrective treatment before 1948 at the age of 3, other than even basic medical care had to be paid for at that time. It was never really discussed as my parents marriage had collapsed under the strain of having a disabled child, who had to be carried everywhere. I only found out years later about my surgery in 1948 because I had reason to request my medical records and it was then I saw it. Because there was no NHS when I was born, this simple check and easily corrected condition, went unnoticed. It not only resulted in three years of pain and suffering for a child, and countless operations, lasting until the age of seven, but has been the cause of a lifetime of disability. We must never go back to those dark days before the NHS, there must never again be a two tier service, for the “have’s” and the “have not’s”. The NHS gave all people in this country a level playing field, regardless of status, generations, since 1948 have paid contributions into the NHS, it belongs to the people of this country, it is not for sale and neither are it’s fabulous overstretched staff !

Roger

The action by Jeremy Hunt parallels that of Thatcher in trying to break the miners union. It will be a very sad day for the Health Care Service when a known liar sets the terms of employment.

Jo Green

Where do I start?
I’ve seen the mess of the NHS first-hand, through an acute physical and mental health breakdown. I’ve seen the under-staffing, and witnessed a matron on a ward saying there were no more staff available. The ward I was on contained patients that should have been in psychiatric care, and others that were detoxing from alcohol. This was a GI ward.
The Drs are thinly-spread, in all honesty, due in a huge part to Govt’s continued determination to stop NHS Bursaries, and to stop poorer people entering the NHS. Basically, if you aren’t minted, you can sod off, yet the minted don’t want the caring jobs; they want the careers. The NHS is being attacked, splintered, primed for sale. I support the Junior Doctors for standing their ground, for going way beyond the call of duty, and for being the life-savers that they are. They are a lot more than life-savers though.

Mike Llywelyn Cox

Junior doctors have save my life twice: once post surgery for bowel cancer and once at 1.30 am in A&E when I had perotinitis.

Micheline Mason

Doctors have saved my life and the lives of many of my loved ones. I believe this fight is about patient safety and is coming from people whose integrity is intact, unlike the people they are fighting. They are also exposing the hidden agenda of privatisation of the NHS, already underway. I hope they do not sign the new contracts en masse.

Sam Brackenbury

Years ago a wonderful doctor, Dr Julien Kahn, (Not her surname now) saved my life and was always there when I needed help, Her wonderful care helped me stay alive and get sober… She told me that as a junior doctor she regularly had to comfort relatives whos relations had been in severe accidents (Many Fatal) and afterwards she would be expected to work a double shift, without any consideration for the mental stress this put her under..

She was one of the most giving people I have ever met in my life, I owe her and my P.A. everything!

How dare Mr “I wrote a book on Privatising the N.H.S”…
Hunt enforce this awful contract!!!! All N.H.S. staff have MY FULL SUPPORT!

You are the backbone of the nation…. “Unt prepare for a scrap you Tory Ponce!

Anon

as a person with a heart complaint and a major back problem doctors of all position have been there for me so ill try to help them now

Lou

10 days ago my mother was admitted at 1 pm to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, by 4pm she had been operated on and sent to a ward, the care from ALL the staff was amazing, the doctors quite simply saved her life and made sure she continued to get better, they did this all with a smile were cheery caring and gave her and us the time we needed to understand what they had done, why, and what would happen in the future, no disrespect to any other profession they look after ‘people’ you don’t mess or use money as a tool to alienate anyone who looks after and save lives of people, humans. Nor do you ask them to work even longer hours, perhaps if the hours were less and there were more doctors the medical negligence compensation bill would be less. Give them the respect pay and safe hours they rightly deserve

Jucam

The junior doctors are fighting for decent working conditions. Without those they can’t treat patients safely. They are also fighting for our NHS

Marisha

Excellent that DPAC is doing this as I fully support the Junior Doctors !!!!!!!!

Bill

I have copd and heart and neurological problem . Twice my life has been saved. We need alert well paid doctors

Maciej Poplawski

Every person earning their living honestly should have a chance to defend and improve their conditions and rights, especially when it needs to stand against its own democratically elected government to do it.

David Herbert

Without the NHS and dedicated staff including Junior doctors I would not be able to live a normal life. I would probably be bed bound.

Elaine Evans

100% Support. Without the Junior Doctors many of us would not be Alive, with Jeremy Hunt many of us will not be.

Anon

the doctors are being attacked for doing their jobs by a reactionary and nasty mr hunt making their conditions and pay worse by making them work unsocial hours and days without recompense and impairing their judgements not giving them progression to a consultant and scope to advance their careers , We need to recruit more doctors in the UK to save

Susan Martin

I see how hard they work on a daily basis, and the hours they work for no pay, if they were paid for the hours they worked and claimed expenses like the politicians the NHS would be bankrupt in a week and to impose this contract on them is an insult to their intelligence. The Government have used arguments that do not measure up and are not proven to get the public to turn against the junior doctors they will do anything to get the public on their side. Why don’t they make banks open 7 days a week so people can actually access them when they need to or why don’t politicians work weekends so people can see them when they need to? Doctors don’t only work extra hours but continually spend their time off revising for exams they need to further their careers few people are aware of this but I see it on a daily basis. Their leisure time is also given up for the benefit of patients. I agree that more doctors are needed for 24 hour cover at weekends but these need to be recruited not making the doctors we have work more and more hours for no remuneration.

Lorraine Ann Williams

This insidious government has brought misery to millions! Persecuting the sick and disabled and old and poor. Stripping the UK of everything for the elite 1%! I’ve had enough!!!

Lisa

They work very hard, and helped my father when he was ill in hospital.

Ivor Adinuff

I’ve never supported the privatisation of the Health Service, and totally abhor people being misled. Junior Doctors already work 7 days a week; the mortality death at weekends is higher, but there is no evidence showing that it is linked to the hours that the junior doctors work. Junior doctors are amongst the top 1% educated in this country and fully understand your proposals; they are not in the best interest of neither the patients safety, nor the juniour doctors. You may want a mass exodus, to enable you to have a run down service and, thus, justify privatising the health service – if this is the case, then come clean and say it, rather than privatising the Health Service through the back door.