The public are being asked to use NHS services appropriately as junior doctors begin their 5th round of strikes.
From 07:00 on Friday (11th August) until 07:00 on Tuesday (15th August), junior doctors across England will be on strike, as the NHS enters the 9th month of industrial action across its services.
The NHS will continue to prioritise emergency care during industrial action and the public should continue to use 999 in life-threatening emergencies and NHS 111 online for other health concerns.
If you need medical help or advice, or you are unsure about whether you should go to hospital, go to NHS 111 online unless it is a life-threatening emergency when you should still call 999. GP services and pharmacies are also available for patients and can be accessed in the normal way.
Planned and routine non-urgent care is expected to be disrupted when the junior doctors walk out. However, if you have not been contacted or informed that your planned appointment has been postponed, then please attend as normal.
NHS England’s South East Medical Director, Vaughan Lewis, said:
“Thank you to everyone for continuing to help us during the industrial action. Please continue to use NHS services responsibly as junior doctors strike for the fifth time. We are urging anyone with non-urgent care need to first seek help from NHS 111 online and only use 999 in a life-threatening emergency.”
Following a recent ruling by the High Court, employers can no longer use agency staff to fill in for striking workers during industrial action, which means some of the cover arrangements used during previous strikes will not be possible. However, the ruling does not apply to a hospital’s own ‘bank’ staff, and NHS Employers has provided guidance to trusts on this issue.
£14 an hour is a good wage now get back to work
Just give the Doctors their deserved pay rise and get back to normal F.F.S
No – the doctors are being greedy and are happy to see patients suffer due to their actions
couldn’t help but notice they earn far more than minimum wage shop workers, yet the cost of bread for both Dr’s and minimum wage earners is the same
they should be thankful they have their health and careers before crying about not getting a quid or two an hour extra, which has to come from the already hard pressed, lower earning taxpayers.
Tell you what, next time your prostate plays up, pop into Morrisons and ask Doris on till 4 to take a look at it.
tell you what john – the next time you need some food and the staff at all the food shops have quit because of even lower wages due to taxation – pop into the hospital and ask the dr to make you some bread
Waiting even longer for life changing operations while well paid junior doctors strike is using the NHS responsibly?
Many workers are on a fraction of the full rated pay while they train for their chosen profession along with additional years climbing the ladder and becoming better qualified (note the word “CHOSEN”)
Not many professions can you look forward to earning £100,000 when qualified with as much again on the side in the private sector as the second job.
It just shows the total bias of these people is money and not patient care.
Patient care as paramount in their ethics stopped many years ago
Anyone with enough drive, ambition and intelligence can earn far more than £100k if the study and work hard. Doctors have to study and work very hard indeed in the NHS for pay that is not even close to being commensurate with their education ( 3xA grades at A level and 5 years at university medical school) and training (3 years for a GP, more for many specialisms).
The problem is your own jealousy due to your own lack of intelligence and general laziness.
They have to work very hard, what is your evidence for that, yes they do six years at medical school, i.e, drinking and partying, but then years of being puppy walked around hospitals until it is safe for them to be allowed near a patient with a pulse, I cut through my thumb and went to casualty for stitches, the doctor,three years qualified told me he had never stitched a live patient, not what I wanted to hear.Go to your family doctor with a set of symptons, its not their expertise that give you medication or a referral , its a algorithm on their computer screen that decides for them, so £14 for someone to consult a computer screen is more than adequate.
That’s a made up story, for sure.
I left school with no qualifications but ended up with trade passes, a degree, an MBA and a very successful business. All qualifications achieved while I was working often more than one job. The MBA alone took me 5 years of hard work part time while I was running my business. I paid high rate tax and full national insurance all my working life but now have to wait for years on an NHS waiting list as the poor doctors ain’t paid enough…
So maybe Mr or Mrs Keyboard Warrior take a look in the mirror before you throw inane insults around.
well pony up then – you pay more tax to give more to someone who already gets more than most others.
please explain why someone who is on minimum wage, should be expected to shoulder a higher tax burden across the board, because a Dr, who already gets more, wants even more.
So so successful you can’t afford BUPA and have to slum it on the NHS?
Another fairy tale.
Jackanory.
Jackanory.
Come on Zonko, don’t take the easy way out with a thumbs down… where is my reply…
They are only asking for 30% MORE than their colleagues accepted in the rest of the hospital services pay increase so don’t be too harsh on the little darlings.
Because one of life’s little failures like you is going to turn them away when you are rushed into A&E, are you?
Muppet. You need them more than they need the approval of someone like you.