Sir Bruce Keogh is part of the problem, not the solution, to junior doctors' row NHS England medical director has implied that junior doctors are callous but has failed to explain how the NHS can deliver seven-day services.
Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS England, and others have described the junior doctors’ contract dispute as a workplace one about terms and conditions. Others see it is as a key battlefront that goes beyond that remit – an effort to save a crumbling NHS.
Keogh is part of the problem, not the solution to the junior doctors’ dispute. Earlier this year, at the instigation of the Department of Health, he toughened the language of a letter he was writing to the BMA, which raised the possibility that junior doctors may not be available to help hospitals in the event of a Paris-style terrorist attack. The implication was that juniors were being callous, unprofessional and not understanding the gravity of their actions. Their collective 53,000 worth of opinions on the way they were being treated by his boss, and now him, did not matter in the slightest. Continue reading... The Guardian
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Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS England, and others have described the junior doctors’ contract dispute as a workplace one about terms and conditions. Others see it is as a key battlefront that goes beyond that remit – an effort to save a crumbling NHS.
Keogh is part of the problem, not the solution to the junior doctors’ dispute. Earlier this year, at the instigation of the Department of Health, he toughened the language of a letter he was writing to the BMA, which raised the possibility that junior doctors may not be available to help hospitals in the event of a Paris-style terrorist attack. The implication was that juniors were being callous, unprofessional and not understanding the gravity of their actions. Their collective 53,000 worth of opinions on the way they were being treated by his boss, and now him, did not matter in the slightest. Continue reading... The Guardian
See also:
- Jeremy Hunt could end this doctors strike tomorrow. I wish our critics would recognise that The Daily Telegraph
- Former chief medical officer resigns over junior doctors strike The Daily Telegraph
- Junior doctors' strike will put lives in danger warns Dame Sally Davies The Daily Mail
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