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And the legal responsibility of NHS providers previously was....? Seems to me the entire article is based on a false ideal of what the NHS is and was, to grind the anti-privatisation axe. Interesting reference to Scotland, as really there ceased to be a real national health service the day...

there was a number of issues originally, such as total working hours, shift pattern length. they've been resolved, agreed. the outstanding issue is that of how they get paid for early evening and weekend hours. financial gain? i dont think so myself, however the BMA and the placards at the...

yet on the picket lines we see placards of trite slogans "save the NHS", "not for sale", "protect our Doctors". infiltration by militants makes it sound far more dramatic than it is, but they certainly look like making points with a political motive beyond the issues in the dispute. i dont...

this is already a service you can obtain. the next logical step, computer aided diagnosis, is also in development and at prototype stage. within this decade it will be live across the world, not sure if we'll accept it here in the UK though, because people will assume its only to "profit...

so there's no junior GPs and no junior doctors in specialism that are office hours?

dont know where you start the maths from, but GDP is £1808bn so 1% more spendwould be 18bn. not small change, a 10% uplift. however, if you want to start increasing tax for spending, theres a half dozen other departments that wnat the same deal. and at the end of the day, tax rises dont sell...

then why are they (both sides) digging in over the allocation of pay and schedule of unsoical hours? the rota'd hours are still to be covered, a doctor will still be tired at the end of a 10 or 12 hour i shift whether its Tuesday lunch time or Sunday midnight. a number of issues on shifts and...

yes, the vast majority do. and i presume you've never heard of mutuals and not-for-profit organisations? such as Bupa for example.

you mean like France, Germany and all those other countries that everyone want to say have everything so much better? whats funny is, from the article it sounds suspiciously like how its already funded. whats different is the provision changes from a monolithic organ of the state to a...

as someone with likely a more honest view than either the government or union, what is it she is furious about?

thats how accounts work, saving on fixed costs or unit costs per operation to free up budget to allow more spending on variable costs. 10 staff at x pay verses 9 staff at (x*110%). or somthing, i see whats meant.

i wasnt arguing if it is or isnt "unsocial", point is its about the money. they want those hours recognised... how about a nice statement from the minister "we recognise that ...."? no, the BMA want money for this. well yes they do seem to have a compromise on the table. personally i think...

they are. the remaining area of contention is overtime on Saturdays and early weekday evenings. Government want those periods seen as regular hours, BMA want them seen as "unsocial" hours and paid more for working them. right or wrong, that boils down to being about money.

no, its free. may have some queuing though.