{"id":8498,"date":"2016-04-25T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2016-04-25T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:30:47","slug":"sordid-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=8498","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Sordid tactics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government is trying to demonise the junior doctors, in the same way that Margaret Thatcher bullied the miners, Unite said today (April 25).<\/p>\n

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Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said health secretary Jeremy Hunt was attempting to politicise the dispute, when he should be negotiating in a constructive fashion.<\/p>\n

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Unite national officer for health Barrie Brown said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is unforgiveable that the government should be raising the spectre that the junior doctors are trying to bring down the government.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese are the same sordid tactics that Margaret Thatcher employed against the miners in the 1980s \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and should be strongly deplored. This squalid demonisation must stop.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe key to this dispute is the legitimate concerns that the junior doctors have regarding patient safety and the lack of resources available to fund weekend working in a safe manner.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis has been accompanied by Hunt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high-handed and arrogant imposition of this flawed and misguided contract which discriminates against female doctors, part-timers and those doctors with disabilities.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAt the weekend, Hunt was offered a way forward with the suggestion that the contract is piloted. He flatly refused to engage with this sensible idea. As health secretary, he has an obligation to the public to do everything in his power to foster a climate for resolution and reconciliation.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bInstead he is busy at Richmond House stoking the fires of conflict with inflammatory rhetoric. The buck stops firmly with him in regards to patients\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 safety.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite, which embraces Doctors in Unite, is fully supportive of the junior doctors, saying the last thing the doctors want to do is to go on strike.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe junior doctors have been pushed against the wall by the government,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added Brown. What Hunt needs to do is to withdraw the imposition of the contract and sit down and negotiate in a constructive manner with the BMA.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe NHS is struggling with understaffing and underfunding. If junior doctors lose this battle, then nurses, porters, midwives and radiographers will be next, as the Tories are hell-bent on reducing the NHS to a rump service ready for the private sector to pick up the most lucrative contracts across England.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday (April 26) Doctors in Unite will be on picket lines supporting junior doctors who find themselves in the front line of defending the health service and delivering patient care.\u00c2\u00a0 Unite believes the government must address this crisis in the NHS by correcting the serious underfunding in the NHS.<\/p>\n

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