Letters: Doctors on either side of the picket line stand against Hunt’s contract

Junior doctor Lisa Wallberg writes on the pavement outside King's College hospital in London
Hands off: junior doctor Lisa Wallberg writes on the pavement outside King's College hospital in London Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Getty

SIR – Doctors spend their lives making difficult decisions in the face of uncertainty. Balancing risk against benefit is the bedrock of medicine.

We greatly respect our colleagues who took a different view to us on last week’s industrial action (“My name’s Janis, I’m a doctor, and I won’t withdraw emergency care”). However, these are the views of the minority – 98 per cent of balloted doctors voted for a full walk-out, and at least 78 per cent of junior doctors took part in industrial action.

Arguments about strikes being overtly dangerous have proved unfounded – not a single acute trust reported a safety incident or found cause to recall junior colleagues during last week’s strike. This is in no small part thanks to our consultant and specialty doctor colleagues, hospital management and the dedicated multidisciplinary teams that worked to cover us. This is what a united and motivated NHS workforce can achieve.

Whichever side of the picket line doctors were on, one thing we can all agree on is that the new contract is unsafe, unfunded and unfit to be imposed on an NHS that is already struggling.

We may take different views on striking, but we all look at this contract and see far more harm than benefit.

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SIR – The NHS is not an industry. Even if it were, truly professional members of staff would resign, not strike.

In relation to contract imposition, resignations might well be justified. The damage this would cause would be the responsibility of the Government, not the doctors.

Michael Collis
Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire

 

SIR – Before the next strike, junior doctors should ask their nursing colleagues whether they are happy with pay rises of 1 per cent a year over the past five years. They might also consider a trip to Dorset to meet some dairy farmers and lads and lasses in a racing stable. The next day could be spent with steel workers and their families in South Wales.

Perhaps then junior doctors might see that they are not the only people working long and unsocial hours, and that a salary of £100,000 at the age of 40 is not a common expectation.

I hope junior doctors will reconsider whether striking and breaking the Hippocratic Oath, which has served as an ethical guide to doctors for so many years, is justified.

Dr John Millar
Cranborne, Dorset

 

SIR – The suggestion that the new contract should be tested via a pilot scheme is an excellent one. Things could move forward without either side being seen to have climbed down.

David Bartholomew
Shiplake, Oxfordshire

 

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