It seems very odd that the Secretary of State for Health is seeking to demoralise and take advantage of the very people who are the core of the National Health Service. If only he would listen to me! My observation comes from having a daughter who is a doctor and a son-in-law who is a trainee surgeon and means that my comments are coming from a particular angle. The nub of the issue, it seems to me is about rostering and whether the junior doctors can be rostered in a way that leaves them with some sort of social and family life. Jeremy Hunt is relying on making a 5 day week into a 7 day week without incurring any extra cost or employing any extra staff. And he is doing this by blaming those very junior doctors for killing people at the weekend. He wants to make them appear greedy but he should know that most of these doctors are working off a huge student loan which they were encouraged to take out in order to become doctors.
I am taking to the bloggers life to give all the support I can muster to my daughter and her friends for whom I have enormous admiration and who I hope will be around when I need them. Jeremy Hunt may be a safe pair of hands for David Cameron but Jo Public remembers that Hunt didn't look all that brilliant when he blamed the tragedy for Hillsborough on the football fans in 2010. He had the grace to apologise for that and I am looking forward to his apologising to the junior doctors for making a similar mistake by blaming them.
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