Life-saving skills demonstrated during industrial action

Doctors involved in this week’s industrial action took time out to pass on some of their clinical skills through a series of nationwide life-saving courses. Dozens of junior doctors attended the events across England, demonstrating basic emergency aid techniques such as CPR to parents and children, as 48 hours of industrial action got under way. The sessions were set up as part of the #littlelifesavers online campaign organised by Oxford specialty trainee 2 in infectious diseases Rachel Clarke. Dr Clarke has been one of the most prominent junior doctors to speak out against the Government’s attempts to impose a new contract on junior doctors, which the overwhelming majority of the profession believe will undermine doctors and patients' safety. She said that she had been surprised by the level of response to the events from both the public and fellow doctors. She said: ‘What was really amazing for me was all these junior doctors [who volunteered] were so keen and desperate to run these sessions. We were having to turn doctors away [in Oxford] because we had too many and we had no idea we would get 45 parents and children turning up.’   Rewarding ‘We [junior doctors] would much rather be in hospital working, but we’ve been forced into this and so helping our local community feel empowered through teaching a life-saving skills course was rewarding.’ Dr Clarke added that as well as the skills course being well received, none of the p...
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