Why is it all right for Jeremy Hunt to attack junior doctors over postponed operations – then do the same thing?
NHS Providers chief executive said guidance was another example of how trusts are ‘now caught between a rock and a hard place’ [Image: Getty Images].
Which do you think is more justified?
Here’s a doctor on Twitter giving his verdict on this decision:
https://twitter.com/dr_alex_gates/status/809865869694210048
Despite all the evidence against it, Hunt imposed his dangerous contract on junior doctors, because he wanted them to work longer for less. Now he is potentially harming NHS patients by postponing the operations they need, because he has made it necessary.
What is to be done about him?
Hospitals in England have been advised to halt elective surgery over Christmas to ensure enough beds are free for patients who need emergency treatment at the end of the year.
In a sign of the intense pressures on NHS resources over the winter months, the regulator NHS Improvement said all hospitals should make more beds available between now and mid-January.
Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, said the focus needed to be on emergency patients at what he called a critical time for the health service. Many hospitals take steps to wind down the number of operations they perform over the Christmas period, but a letter obtained by the Health Service Journal states that operations may need to be postponed “beyond any current plans”.
Source: Hospitals in England told to put operations on hold to free up beds | Society | The Guardian
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Because he has been engineering this for a long time. He even wrote about it in there little book. From 2005. Is there a reason why the media never helps. Check them out. Follow the money
Hospitals do indeed wind down treatment over the Christmas period, after all the staff are human and the hospitals like to give as many staff the time off, with the added bonus of less expense in bank holiday pay, also for elective surgery not many people want to spend christmas in hospital if they can help it, but ti does seem to have been extended for other reasons.
Yes, we’re not discussing surgery that can be readily put off – post-Christmas dates would logically have been set for that already.