to not support the junior doctors?

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just that really. it seems to be about them wanting more pay rather than saving the NHS. am I wrong? feel free to educate me (rather than attacking me!) ....

But (from the headline) it says that there was a small number of patients at 8 of the 18 pilot schemes. So that means there was enough patients at 10 of the 18? So more than half?

This is one of my main issues with the NHS. Yes - there will be some areas where take up will be lower. But there will be areas (lots of young professionals etc), where patients woukd be delighted to get a Saturday appointment. It doesn't and shouldn't be one size fits all.

Piscivorus I have raised that point here and have been told by junior doctors and consultants that it was impossible for them to back their colleagues within the NHS in any way (because it's illegal to strike in sympathy). Presumably the logical thing other HCPs can do to 'back them' now is....nothing? Personally, I think other HCPs 'backing' junior doctors means facilitating their strike by putting up with/managing chaos and holding their tongue about anything 'unacceptable' that goes on as a result. So basically PR.

I think a 7 day full service NHS on 5 day money is just a pipe dream. I support the junior doctors and would be happy to pay another couple of % in tax to fund the NHS that saved the lives of my daughter and me (EMCS), my mum (cancer) and my husband (appendectomy when he was young) .
Privatising the NHS is just bullshit. The NHS is like one massive insurance policy for all....if the system gets privatised then we will all have to fund, through private insurance policies, a huge layer of insurance providers....money that will just end up as dividends in the pockets of shareholders. Probably American shareholders (I've nothing against the Yanks you understand, just prefer that money stays in this country).

gone My profession have never suggested striking and I am sure there are many ways of supporting others without threatening to do that. I do think, over the years, the BMA have wielded far more power than any other professional body and if there had been solidarity between healthcare professions others would be in better positions from which to support them and the whole NHS would be in a better place

That's what I think too, piscivorus. But for some reason every doctor I've spoken to here has felt there was nothing they could do for other HCPs because they couldn't strike. So there you go.