Jeremy Hunt Grilled Over New Junior Doctors' Strike
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2016
- Sky's Eamonn Holmes takes Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to task as the dispute over junior doctors' working contracts rumbles on. Safety fears have been raised for patients after junior doctors announced a "full withdrawal of labour" over five days later this month. Read more: news.sky.com/story/junior-doct...
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But it's not about pay, it's about patient safety and not stretching doctors too far that puts patients at risk. Jeremy Hunt and this government have not care for patients, patients loved ones or the people who care for them.
If pay is the main sticking point - then pay doctors more. I don't think the fact that we also underpay nurses, police officers, fire fighters is an adequate excuse.
Unfortunately, I find it hard to believe that is the main sticking point, and I'm fed up with being lied to.
their union spokeswoman on tv news this morning said it is nothing to do with wages or money dont think half of them know why they are going to strike for losing a lot of public sympathy
They have been hijacked by the feminazi
But it's not about pay, it's about patient safety and not stretching doctors too far that puts patients at risk. Jeremy Hunt and this government have not care for patients, patients loved ones or the people who care for them.
Abul Hasnath It is the government and the media making this about pay (in an attempt to cynically turn people against the doctors), whereas doctors and anyone with a mind to actually listen know it's about patient safety and so avoiding higher death rates on every day of the week.
It's more about hours than pay but considering how many hours junior doctors do which is way too much, they deserve more pay. If they can't cut the hours, atleast increase the pay. Still, hours is an issue because it can put patient safety at risk as junior doctors become very tired and increasing pay won't resolve anything except maybe motivate junior doctors a bit. It's a mess
I take back everything bad I've ever said about Eamonn Holmes
yep me too
Let's have some serious facts. Hunt et al claim there will be 16,000 cancelled operations due to the strike. Last year 73,300 were cancelled last year (before any action) these cancellations were due to safe practice and not junior doctors-Why haven't these figure been shared? When all the A&E's and NHS hospitals have reduced services or closed those who failed to support junior doctors will realise they were giving us all the heads up , that the NHS is being deliberately underfunded and privatisation has crept in through the back door. Support #JuniorDoctorsstrike to save our NHS
We rarely here from the Doctor and the unions in the News 🙁
exactly... Murdoch media giving plenty of air time to Tory opinion tho.
Murdoch media is just a BS machine tbh.
They are trying to turn public opinion against the doctors just like they have against any union since the 1980's.
My doctor only opens her surgery for 4 days a week and only then for no more than 4 hours per day. GP's really are a joke tbh. All the ones going on strike should be immediately sacked.
djtonylee - Totally agree!
These are junior doctor contracts, not GP contracts...
When he's told that he doesn't return calls, he lies and says he's held loads of meetings, whilst looking to the side with his eyes.
When are the MP's going to open their surgeries 7 days a week?
Hunt should realise that nobody trusts him and step down, I personaly do not trust the man he dos not have to lie his eyes do it for him, hes not telling the truth in my mind, he should go
it's not about wages. it's about stretching a 5 day service over 7 so I think everybody will be at risk of dying over 7 days rather than just weekend . This means GPs need to work at weekend and every single member of the NHS also . This will never work until staffing levels across the board go up
so the best thing was not to get ill at weekends well in the real world thousands if not millions have to work weekends now most of rail maintenance work is spread over weekend men working 16 hours or more to finish work why shouldn't junior doctors join real world?
When was the best strike?
Resign Jeremy Hunt!!
Hunt is a dodgy guy
The world is increasingly being changed by people making money simply just by HAVING money and taking more and more from the people actually doing the work.
Cant believe UK public even question a doctors intentions. How sad. And the admiration of kardashians, bankers and selfies goes on. Pitiful.
I don't see him working 24/7
Look at that! Obviously no one on sky news actually knows why junior doctors are striking. It's not about money ffs
Stop talking , having dialogue is just a waste of time . Following Sunak by arguing nonsensical remarks in the Parlaiment and nothing gets done.
Doctors are badly let down by BMA whose ideological and political games are clear. Completely unnecessary round of new strikes. Good to see PM backing Sec of State to deliver manifesto commitment. HM Gov not unions decide policy.
what a load of twaddle. BMA struck a deal which was rejected by the doctors... over 58% of them.
Hunt is just a liar. Tories are working to destroy the NHS.
Yeah that would work...Have a government deliver a health policy not based on a single shred of evidence, that its own civil servants acknowledge will not work...god forbid doctors who work on the front line have ideas on what the NHS needs
not so unions will do that
Spot on John.
spot on
why don't we have someone from union in this interview?
most probably all on holiday in West indies or some other exotic place their members could only dream of
or working 7am-10pm Monday to Saturday seeing as though they are normal and sociable hours according to the new contract
The medical unions will not have sought strike action without due process first of all. My understanding is that junior doctors have legitimate health & safety concerns for the conditions they're facing, in the absence of structured and clear data for future plans. Having worked in private healthcare and having worked alongside Drs and Nurses, some of whom moved from NHS to Private companies due to what I'd summarise as being overworked within the NHS (not accounting for other personal circumstance, just a general overview), which goes back as far as the privatisation of even the cleaning services by non-medically qualified service/contracted employees following/during Thatcherism.
I'm currently in the process of learning more about the charging structures implemented within England (not sure about Wales) for GP appoints. Approximately (up to) £140 odd for a GP face-to-face; the most expensive of all available options. Keen to find out how this will work.
The medical professions ceased to be the 'caring profession' a long time ago... If they don't like the pay conditions or expectations - then get another job! Simple!
Sky News working hard deleting peoples comments still I see.
Unsubbed.
He's sticking to his script but keeps shaking his head, as if he can't even believe the bs coming out of his own mouth.
the way he wears a badge of the thing hes trying to destroy... freak of nature
Audio / video are out of sync! Come on @SkyNews!
imposition of a contract that a majority of junior doctors who cast a vote to reject is not "dialogue". Spreading 5 days worth of medical staff over 7 days with ever reeling numbers of trainees is unsafe and will only make things worse in the long run.
senior doctors should be paid for the number of medical procedures they carry out not by the numbers they cancel.
We always never know until the deed is done.
Can someone monitor the number of new shops selling Coffin.
Big business , must not land in the hands of the Conservatives.
your running away when we try too
This "man" is a psychopath, a carbuncle on the backside of humanity. He needs to be "taken out" (and I don't mean on a date)
Either Murdoch has beef with Hunt, or Eamonn went totally off script and is heading for a disciplinary from Murdoch's political commissars.
these greedy uncaring doctors should realise the pain and harm they are doing put up and shut up and not strike and oh yes what is the phrase do no harm
as far as I can make out its about working weekends well most workers work week ends these days welcome to real world they were advised to take it by BMA but once union leftist got to them like sheep they follow just what unions want if its not about money what is it about these are not dedicated in any way shape or form think they would be having these strikes if labour had been in government
junior doctors get paid a pittance for working 24/7 whilst senior doctors who do very little get paid a fortune, something is seriously wrong.
Disgraceful behaviour from junior doctors. All about money they couldn't give two hoots about patients. Go get a job nine to five in an office. disgusting people.
Wild364 Horses - I totally agree!
Wrong. Those who strike don't get paid. Jeremy Hunt is the most useless Health Secretary in the history of Britain. HE MUST LEAVE!!!
Why would they be doctors if they don't care about patients?
Absolute rubbish. Nothing at all to do with money! Talk to them.
eamonn holmes = BOSS
eamonn holmes = pillock
Eamonn Holmes = Polarising
Hunt looks likes he's about to vomit. I always assumed the sociopath was calm as a cucumber.
'cost neutral' whilst asking for more hours. Rubbish
Jeremy hunt is looking for confrontation with doctors like Chris grayling is with the rail unions
Jeremy
Very calm interview by Mr Hunt. Keep it up Jezza!
Tom Williams - Agreed! The best decisions are made calmly.
+nintendy The strike has nothing to do with pay, the far left junior doctors in the BMA just despise the Tories.
How exactly is it prevailing?
+elliott oneill No I haven't? The conservatives have record leads in all of the recent polls. The only overwhelming support for Corbyn is from his far left membership. He will never ever be prime minister in a million years, and I for one am very glad.
+elliott oneill And as for being a working class Tory, I know a conservative government will make the countries economy better. Alright, they won't be able to pay me thousands in hands out, but I will be much better off longer term.
Eamonn Holmes is not skilled enough to deal with the different tenses used by Jeremy Hunt. "I would like the public to look back on this time"; "I would like to think so". All basically a deflection. In the immediate future, I hop that the interviewers are as skilled and educated as those being interviewed, and until that point, there can be no progress or enlightenment.
Jeremy Hunt the tucking health destroyer!
Jeremy hunt 14 millionaire plus.
Really can't stand this Jeremy guy. Freaking fascist!
Good to see a growing sense that BMA action is grossly disproportiate - few really believe this is about saving the NHS or patient safety. Pay and Politics. Pleasing set of Newspaper Headlines this morning. Dr McCourt of BMA has obviously learnt the union boilerplate position by rote.
After years of negotiations HMG should just go ahead and impose contract whilst keeping dialogue open to minor tweak here and there - its hard to accept there are fundemental issues with a contract previously approved by more reasonable MBA leadership.
We are a soft country us mp claim everything pay rise all time while we all suffer we should all go to there houses sort them out
Hunt is grotesque
they are not doctors they are strikers
oh diddums junior
oh diddums junior doctors
does he look coked up like mr bean
God bless jersey hunt a 7 day a week NHS
Call me crazy, but I do genuinely believe Jeremy Hunt would make a good home secretary.
in all good conscience how can doctors strike?
because even they are union sheep
Because they believe that if the proposed contract goes through far more harm will be caused than that caused by the strikes. Consultants who wouldn't otherwise be working are also coming to help fill in. It's a very painful thing to do, but we think that in the long run less harm will be caused this way.
Now crazy, seems Doc's, Uncaring, selfish, going for political strike leaving 100's of thousands of people suffering in pain, doubtless some will die due to lack of, or late treatment.Time for us the people to picket the strikers as they have abandoned their OATH
& are very happy for us to suffer. If my loved ones suffer they will equally.
ngl, doctors dont take an 'oath' they are concerned as to the fact they are going to be made to work more hours, at more antisocial times, and the goverment wants to do this 'on the cheap'. besides the facts show that most deaths in hospital happen on wednesday, since 'weekends' include friday saturday and sunday.
So they should be paid whatever they ask for? I have never seen a poor doctor. They will rake it in later in life, but they are greedy and want lots now.
That worked for previous generations, but we now have the aftermath of a recession and house prices that kick every one, including junior doctors, off the ladder. Until Junior Doctors get to a consultantcy or GP level, they are forced to throw their money down the drain to landlords or live with their parents until they're 35 to be able to actually afford a house. This is in addition to the 7 years of student loan debt they have to contend with, which will be £63,000 for the most recent batch.
And while (besides the magnitudes because of how long they have to study) this isn't unique to doctors, remember this is in addition to them working nights and weekends, putting up with a lot of unsavoury people who rock up to A&E and threaten them, covering for the lack of doctors that we have which are currently closing departments across the country, and having the responsibility of saving human lives every single day. Try doing that while getting the luxury of a decent nights sleep.
This isn't greed, this isn't even about salary, despite what Jeremy Hunt is trying to convey. This is about tell people who already work overtime to do more shifts, and still magically maintain levels of patient safety, without investing any additional funding into the NHS. Please explain how that could possibly work.
I'm with Jeremy Hunt
sack em all and start again jeremy
They choose their jobs and went for them knowing the hours and pay !! Why should they be allowed to play God with people's lives.
Because they didn't sign a contract to get fucked over by the tories. Hunt is trying to change pay and hours to something they didn't choose and force it on them.
+shamanahaboolist nobody held a gun to their head to take the job maybe they should just leave and let the people get the care they need and deserve over the greed of junior doctors.
1978dadie
They already have the job. They already have a contract.
And the fact remains that Hunt should be putting money in to recruit specifically for the weekends so there's enough cover not spreading out the doctors and forcing them into even *more* hours.
+shamanahaboolist I agree there should be more resources for hospitals to cover weekends but how is paying junior docs more money going to help ?
1978dadie
It's not about pay. It's about adequate cover.
god bless Jeremy hunt
What an arrogant and rude interviewer!
Very unprofessional.
Thank f**k I don't pay for SKY News.
Abul Hasnath
Very true! Unbiased journalism is essential.
In fact journalism is regarded as the 'Fourth Estate' in society.
hornetgags
How is being rude considered 'holding politicians to account'?!
That kind of 'interrogation' resolves nothing.
Interrupting and not allowing your guest to speak & explain only deprives the viewers of answers.
Let the public determine if he should be held to account...not some stuck up journalist who behind the scenes (after the show) would probably be having dinner with these politicians.