More five-day doctor strikes announced - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37250258



Playing politics? By stating that they're already exhausted and worried for patients' lives? Do one.



Is he catching up on Brexit BS or something? Mind you, he is known for it when it comes to the NHS.

FS. His own civil servants are telling him his plans are unworkable and dangerous.

The GMC is saying that patients will suffer if the strikes go ahead. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37272676

Obviously you had to be a highly qualified medical professional to figure that out . The strike is (at least as far as the JDs believe) very much 'the lesser of two evils'.

The GMC is just scaremongering. No doubt they've been leant on by the Govt. When junior docs are on strike, it's the senior docs who are on the wards ie consultants (and consultant-level doctors) will be looking after patients. If anything, patients will be getting better care. Also, given that junior docs work in a team headed by the consultant, any problems go back to the consultant, so if a patient dies because of a junior doctor's actions, the consultant will have some liability.

Well you would have thought that, but many senior doctors and consultants do no know how to use the normal day to day equipment properly.
I had a consultant try to take my blood for a test as the nurses were rather busy looking after an emergency, and he eventually gave up and called one of the nurses across to do it.

True - the day-to-day things of discharge summaries, bloods, prescriptions etc - will be things normally done by the junior doctors. Doesn't mean consultants can't do them, but it will take them longer.