Islanders are being urged to keep the Emergency Department at St Mary’s Hospital free for those in need as junior doctors prepare to go on strike once again this Thursday (27th June) for a period of 5 days. Junior doctors who are members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are due to take part in industrial action for the 11th time later this week. Junior doctors, who could actually have up to 8 years’ experience, will go on strike from 07:00 on Thursday 27th June until 07:00 on Tuesday 2nd July. The local NHS says it is anticipating that hospitals and Emergency Departments may be busy and is therefore asking people to choose the right service for your needs. It’s said that patient safety remains an absolute priority and that the NHS will continue to work closely with partners across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight health and care system to ensure that people who require access to services receive care and treatment in as timely a way as possible. Patients with appointments booked on strike days will be contacted by the NHS if their appointment needs to be rescheduled due to industrial action. If you have not been contacted, you should attend your appointment as planned. Dr Zaid Hirmiz, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight, has said:
“We are so grateful to our public who have supported their local NHS during the previous strike action by choosing carefully which NHS service to access and we ask that they do that again this week. “You can help by taking simple steps during industrial action to look after yourselves, your loved ones and to check in on vulnerable family members and neighbours. “There are a number of alternative services including pharmacies which can now treat seven common conditions such as sinusitis and ear infections; urgent treatment centres (UTCs); Healthier Together for advice on caring for children and 111 online. By using one of these alternative services, it allows our teams in our emergency departments to attend to those patients who need urgent care and attention. “No one should put off seeking help in an emergency, however we are urging people to only attend our Emergency Departments if it is a life or limb threatening situation. “If you have an appointment during the industrial action, then please continue to attend as planned unless you have been contacted to reschedule. “We are working closely with our partners to limit the impact of industrial action and patient care remains our top priority.”
It’s ok the council are trying their best to help by granting planning permission for hundreds of new affordable homes on the Island just a shame that most people in affordable homes can’t be bothered to work
This business of urging the public to avoid A&E because their staff are planning yet another strike is wearing very thin.
How about getting the situation resolved?
What do we pay the legions of managers for if they repeatedly decline to provide the service sick people need and pay for?
how about you don’t go strike – workshy layabouts
there not on a bad wage. good pension. full sick pay. enhanced payments for weekends and knights. and they don’t do much all day
You’re an idiot.
How about they get a better paid job with perks in Canada/USA/Australia/Saudi Arabia and we get left with no doctors. Maybe you’d like to train as a doctor saffie?
In the past they took the hippocratic oath.
No they take the hypocrisy oath as the only care they show is towards themselves…
You get paid more than most of us, so just put up and shut up. Obviously your not in the job to actually help people, just the money. Don’t you know other people are struggling, oh no of course not as you are entitled, snobby and greedy. Just do your jobs and be happy you have a job. Get rid of some of the managers at St Mary’s, you know those that get paid loads and only turn up for 3 days a week if your lucky, or are “in a meeting” all the bloody time. Another bunch of greedy jobsworths. Sack ’em all and start again.
Want to earn more?
Train hard.
Learn more.
Pass exams.
Greedy?
No, they just put the effort in so they are not earning minimum wage and bitching on social media.
minimum wage, no they are not.
He said so they are NOT earning minimum wage *head in hands*
Do they? Interesting? Salary wise probably more than you – break that down into per hour after their often 60/70 hour weeks then possibly not (although still probably more than you).
Entitled, snobby AND greedy…wow! A lot to take in from your comment and I commend you on the research and study you have put in to come up with such detailed results.
The greens are the only ones with a plan to fix the NHS and the balls to say they will never privatise it. All the others want to privatise it. The NHS has saved my life three times where if I were in the US, I would have died. It is as simple as that. If any government starts privatisation then I am happy to fight them in all the ways I know. As a boomer IT / coder guy, I know how to bring the country to it’s knees.
The Greens…ha ha ha ha
By the time they’ve switched off all fossil fuel generated power the hospitals would be dark and back to candle power
Sick of the b lot of you. Guess you will be looking after your private referrals then and keeping the bank account topped up that way. Enough is enough.
Pay them properly then
They do get paid properly and get looked after decent pensions and full sick pay I know one hospital worker that had half a year off sick on full pay then was due for retirement and got his nice big pension
4 to 6 years studying to then do further studying and training for a measly £32,000 a year, before tax. Yes fantastic wage that is, Chris. I’m sure you’ll think of that the next time one of your loved ones is in their care.
How much are these trainee doctors-earning now and how much more do they think they should be getting .
Perhaps a better solution would be to simply pay them for the actual hours they work? No I don’t know exactly how you could implement, this as a “clocking on clocking off” system can be abused.
Salaries are fairly decent but with weekly hours excessing 60/70 then their “hourly wage” falls well below par?
Sadly it is not just the NHS that is broken – this country is on its knees and I cannot see anyway out without some very drastic, draconian measures being implemented.
there would be more money available if they weren’t spending so much on diversity officers