Non junior doctors guidance for industrial action

  The BMA has issued guidance for all non junior doctors — as their colleagues prepare to take industrial action. The advice covers how to help services remain safe and what consultants and senior doctors can be asked to do while covering the shifts of junior doctors. It says doctors should ensure they have the training for the roles they are being asked to carry out and staff should have been briefed by their trusts on their response to industrial action — among other areas of planning that should be completed. The fifth round of industrial action will see junior doctors setting up pickets across England on April 26 and 27 — with the walkout running from 8am to 5pm. The guidance outlines why junior doctors are taking industrial action and the form it will come in. It says: ‘We have consistently and clearly asked the Government for the key assurances we would need to reach agreement on a contract that is safe for patients, fair to doctors and good for service delivery. ‘While progress was made on some issues during negotiations between the BMA, NHS Employers and the Department of Health, the Government's final offer was not acceptable to the BMA on the grounds that it still did not sufficiently protect patient safety and doctors' working lives.’ Read the guidance for non junior doctors
Source: BMA News - Category: UK Health Source Type: news