Not a good day.

I'm having a really bad day - for a start the hospital Wi-Fi which prevents me from looking at anything good has just stopped me posting pictures on my Blog any more - Why?

It worked yesterday - I swear there's a grumpy man in a room cutting me off from whatever I want to do.

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This morning the Junior Doctors foolishly called off their one day strike. For weeks Jeremy Hunt has said that 20,000 operations would be cancelled; now it looks like 3000 or 4000. Funny that.

For what? More negotiations that will get nowhere but Hunt will have time to side line the Junior Doctors.

Sadly, this was a chance to create a new atmosphere of unity and opposition within the NHS and it's been lost now.

Also Robyn was going to ferry me down to the Picket line!
                           
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Robyn's getting frazzled about how long this is going and when I'm coming home. She's worried and rightly so.

Sunday night, the blood that's coming out of the tube from my left kidney first started to thin out - that's three days of bleeding quite a lot.

"Still Blackcurrant" one of the nurses would say.

I'm waiting for a scan because my other 'good' kidney is now a worry.

So it's not a great time.

Although after 5 days they have agreed to open a window because the heating has been stuck full on in my room all the time.

Wish me luck.

Neil Harris
(a don't stop till you drop production)

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The Junior Doctors Strike 2015.

The Junior Doctors have voted to go on strike;

The regulator has pointed out that they can be struck off the register if they do.

The Patients Association has condemned their action.

What's the Blog's view?

Jeremy Hunt wants 7 day week working but he isn't prepared to pay for it. As a result of a failure to agree new contract terms, 37,700 Junior Doctors in England voted; 99% for some action, 98% for a full strike. 

 

It's nonsense to suggest that any doctor could be struck off for going on strike; it's a human right. Even under the Tories anti Union legislation if the ballot is carried out legally......it's legal.

 

It's almost impossible to get an incompetent Doctor struck off so there is no way they can take disciplinary action against 37,700. Apart from anything else it would take about 20 years.

 

Patients are more likely to be harmed by tired, depressed and overworked Doctors than by a one day strike where there will be Consultant cover.

I'm very firmly backing the strikers.

I have a little operation planned on 26th November but as long as I'm fit enough to make it, I'll be back on the picket line to show my solidarity.

The dates for industrial action are:

• 08:00 GMT 1 December to 08:00 GMT 2 December (junior doctors to staff emergency care)
• 08:00 GMT to 17:00 8 December (full strike)
• 08:00 GMT to 17:00 16 December (full strike)

I'll be there!

Neil Harris

(a don't stop till you drop production)

 

Home: helpmesortoutstpeters.blogspot.com

Contact me: neilwithromisestokeep@gmail.com