Junior doctors strike back on

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Shall be down the Royal Surrey after walking the dog before work, it's Hunt's local hospital and the staff there patched me up a treat last month when injured myself. We live in a townhouse and I was saddened that Hunt's majority is so large that he did no canvassing last year, my stairs can be quite slippy and a good, hard shove in the back will see him badly injured...

 

[PeterTCA]

"Occupational Hazards" recently published a supplement "Something Should be Done". An account of Hospital workers who declined strike action and instead created a series of
"imaginative tactics". Convinced me that Anarchist industrial action should always be characterised by cunning and imagination. The media and management well-skilled in
reacting to "strike action". Good luck.

 

[butchersapron]

"Occupational Hazards" recently published a supplement "Something Should be Done". An account of Hospital workers who declined strike action and instead created a series of
"imaginative tactics". Convinced me that Anarchist industrial action should always be characterised by cunning and imagination. The media and management well-skilled in
reacting to "strike action". Good luck.

And sometimes by striking.

 

[gawkrodger]

every tube station I've walked past so far this morning has had doctors outside it leafletting, handing out stickers etc with seemingly v. positive responses. Will be wandering over to UCH in a bit for their picket line

 

[gosub]

A quick thank you to the junior doctor who during the course of his 13 hour shift at Kingston on Friday saved my sister in laws life.

This strike has my full support.

 

[J Ed]

It looks like a very effective strike, doesn't it?

 

[butchersapron]

Bristol docs doing a meet the drs thing in the centre (this on top of the pickets at southmead and the BRI). Not looking very unruly.

 

[killer b]

Yeah, they're only allowed a certain number on the picket, so the rest are doing stuff in the community (have been for months). Excellent strategy imo.

 

[J Ed]

Yeah, they're only allowed a certain number on the picket, so the rest are doing stuff in the community (have been for months). Excellent strategy imo.

I agree. Interestingly very similar to the tactics used during the Chicago teacher strikes.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Plenty of docs outside the Royal Surrey this morning, stopped by and said thank you.

A quick thank you to the junior doctor who during the course of his 13 hour shift at Kingston on Friday saved my sister in laws life.

This strike has my full support.

Who doesn't have a tale of these wonderful people doing great things? When BB2 had meningitis one lovely doctor on a 12 hour shift didn't go home for 36 hours as he wanted to ensure that she got his personal attention throughout the worst of it. I would lay down my life for my kids, what do I owe this man? Hunt and his mates can just fucking do one.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Are the hospitals dealing with more or less scabs than usual?

 

[Guineveretoo]

Croydon University Hospital has picket lines at both main entrances. They seem to be well organised and well supported.

 

[treelover]

Latest news and updates from today's junior doctors' strike

 

[gawkrodger]

I see one of my reasonably local trusts - Sandwell are acting the bastard

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Are the hospitals dealing with more or less scabs than usual?

 

[Farmer Giles]

the sun are getting slaughtered in their comments feed on that article.

Rightly so....

This "Moët Medic" Smeared By The Sun Was Volunteering In Nepal

 

[killer b]

treelover you'll be pleased to hear the papersellers were sent on their way at my mate's hospital.

 

[kropotkin]

Bristol docs doing a meet the drs thing in the centre (this on top of the pickets at southmead and the BRI). Not looking very unruly.

We ran 5 Meet The Doctors events in Bristol (Bear Pit, Fountains opposite Hippodrome, North Street, Clifton Triangle, Turbo Island).
It was very well supported by the public (at least at the North Street one), with overt support from practically everyone who responded.

 

[gawkrodger]

popped over to UCH

massive public support. Literally 75% of vehicles which drove past beeped horns in support (though high concentration of buses and taxis may have skewed that figure upwards)

 

[Struwwelpeter]

... meanwhile, the BBC continues to spout government's spin. Headlines on their website reporting #unt's press releases, not the public support that they seem to be getting everywhere.

 

[butchersapron]

We ran 5 Meet The Doctors events in Bristol (Bear Pit, Fountains opposite Hippodrome, North Street, Clifton Triangle, Turbo Island).
It was very well supported by the public (at least at the North Street one), with overt support from practically everyone who responded.

In the old days you'd have known all the turbo island denizens by name.

 

[treelover]

Massive in Sheff, hundreds of doctors, medics, etc, lots of horns beeping, took some chocolates, spoke to a medic in his late thirties, he says that most are very reluctant to do the third strike as it is half term and the consultants who are covering for them have booked time off, etc.

 

[Zabo]

 

[teqniq]

Proper car crash shit.

 

[bimble]

popped over to UCH

massive public support. Literally 75% of vehicles which drove past beeped horns in support (though high concentration of buses and taxis may have skewed that figure upwards)

Same at Kings Hospital (Denmark Hill) yesterday .. at least half the passing cars were beeping - a police went past thumbs upping out of all the windows even

 

[dessiato]

Those of you who are know of my accident record will be aware how very much I owe the NHS. I am fully supportive of the doctors, and the nurses/midwives in their fights against the government. If I was in the UK I'd happily join the pickets. For the first time in my life I feel I must stand up, visibly and vocally, and make sure I counted.

But I'm not in the UK. So I write to MPs, and talk to people back home trying to be certain that they know why the NHS needs us. We will miss it when it's gone.

 

[nino_savatte]

This is sort of related. Senior doctors at a Nottingham hospital quit rather than work for Circle.

An NHS hospital has been forced to scrap highly rated services for patients with severe skin conditions including skin cancer after an “exodus” of senior doctors reluctant to work for a private-sector subcontractor.

Nottingham University Hospitals Trust said it would no longer be able to provide acute adult dermatology, including emergency care, after losing six of its eight consultants.

Five of those departing are understood to have left rather than transfer to Circle, a private healthcare company which won a contract to provide most of the local dermatology services last year. The closure of the service has raised concerns about the impact of privatisation on the NHS, with doctors worried about job security in the private sector.
NHS doctors quit rather than work for private firm

 

[treelover]

They will have to watch out, all those clenched fists, the D/M etc, will mark them down as Marxists, Trots, etc.

 

[existentialist]

This is sort of related. Senior doctors at a Nottingham hospital quit rather than work for Circle.

It's going to make it a bit harder for the government to characterise junior doctors as bolshie for objecting to the creeping privatisation of the NHS when senior doctors are doing things like this. Good for them.

Though one wonders whether this was a total surprise to the commissioners when they decided to outsource this service, or whether there is some ulterior motive.

Now, Circle have presumably contracted to provide this service (having unwisely failed to guarantee that they'd be able to staff it), and will now have to either replace these consultants, or fail to deliver on the contract. How seriously do we expect the commissioners to hold their feet to the fire and penalise them appropriately for not fulfilling their half of the bargain?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It's going to make it a bit harder for the government to characterise junior doctors as bolshie for objecting to the creeping privatisation of the NHS when senior doctors are doing things like this. Good for them.

Though one wonders whether this was a total surprise to the commissioners when they decided to outsource this service, or whether there is some ulterior motive.

Now, Circle have presumably contracted to provide this service (having unwisely failed to guarantee that they'd be able to staff it), and will now have to either replace these consultants, or fail to deliver on the contract. How seriously do we expect the commissioners to hold their feet to the fire and penalise them appropriately for not fulfilling their half of the bargain?

That was 2014 btw so presumably there we can now tell.