El Cid Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Jeremy Hunt has said that the imposition of the junior doctors contract is linked to a 7 day NHS. I would have thought a 7 day NHS would take much more. Junior doctors already work 7 days. Can we have more NHS, without more money, or perhaps there is more money? What will make the NHS 7 days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Jeremy Hunt has said that the imposition of the junior doctors contract is linked to a 7 day NHS. I would have thought a 7 day NHS would take much more. Junior doctors already work 7 days. Can we have more NHS, without more money, or perhaps there is more money? What will make the NHS 7 days? Our taxes of course. With the vacuum of provision filled by private contractors, paid for by our taxes. The 7 day NHS is a Trojan horse. Edited February 12, 2016 by I1L2T3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 There'll never be a 7 day full NHS service, the compromise that the Tories will accept will be Saturday as a full working day. I believe that the new junior doctors contracts certainly point towards this. Unfortunately, it hasn't been thought through fully. For example without social services working on Saturdays the hospitals will not be able to discharge a lot of their patents as they can on a Monday to Friday, so they'll struggle to admit patients into those beds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bagger Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I presume once the doctors no longer get unsocial hours rate for Saturdays then it will soon follow that nurses and healthcare assistants will lose their unsocial hours for weekends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daven Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) There'll never be a 7 day full NHS service, the compromise that the Tories will accept will be Saturday as a full working day. I believe that the new junior doctors contracts certainly point towards this. Unfortunately, it hasn't been thought through fully. For example without social services working on Saturdays the hospitals will not be able to discharge a lot of their patents as they can on a Monday to Friday, so they'll struggle to admit patients into those beds. Indeed. Without a 7 day and full physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietician, diabetes nurse, cardiac rehab nurse, social worker etc etc service this 24/7 dream the Tory party have will never happen. Just having doctors and nurses 24/7 will not work. Edited February 11, 2016 by Daven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Cid Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Just having doctors and nurses 24/7 will not work. I would have thought that a seven day service is not happening so much, because of the more senior doctors, not the junior ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I wonder how far the 55 million quid a day we give to the failed EU would go to helping solve this problem. Angel1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I wonder how far the 55 million quid a day we give to the failed EU would go to helping solve this problem. Angel1. What is the problem? The one artificially created by Hunt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manlinose Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I wonder how far the 55 million quid a day we give to the failed EU would go to helping solve this problem. Angel1. The short answer is "not very" - but I doubt you'd entertain a longer, more detailed explanation why the premise behind your post is fundamentally mistaken, even if I could be bothered to post it and even if it was in any way related to the topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 I would have thought that a seven day service is not happening so much, because of the more senior doctors, not the junior ones. It's because hospitals need a whole load of staff to make it work if it goes 7 days. All the staff that man and support the facilities for out-patients, diagnostics etc... that normally only work in the week. Doctors are just part of the picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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