So the day arrived and the promised 'landmark' speech that would define us for generations. And in time when asked by our grandchildren shall we remember what our Prime Minister said on this day.......now hold on what was it again....something about Doctors having to work the same hours throughout Europe. Yes that's it....Britain is being held back 'cause our Doctors cant work more than 48 hrs.
This is what our Dave said: "Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners. (Extract from Ten Downing Street website).
In the first place I'm not really sure 'practitioners' agree, Ben Molyneux, chair of the BMA's junior doctor committee writing in the Guardian on Friday 18 January 2013: "I resent Cameron knocking the European working time directive – not working 100-hour weeks has probably saved lives."
After all, working long hours is bad for your health, irrespective of what country you are from, as David DiSalvo says in an article in Forbes.com - Why Working More Than 8 Hours A Day Can Kill You:
If you’re accustomed to being the last one to leave the office, new research may offer you cause to rethink your routine.
The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, shows that a combination of stress, raised blood pressure and unhealthy diets stemming from long working hours may be the cause of thousands of workers’ serious health problems....and....A 2011 British survey [... ] revealed that doing more than 11 hours of work a day raised heart disease risks by 67 percent...
The 'Nasty' Conservative Party is back then, showing their true colours, a priority for them an opt out from the Working Time Directive. Which can mean only one thing they want worse working conditions for UK workers - they think the health and well-being of UK workers is worth less than others in Europe. And we the 'servants' should bloody well agree.....
This is what our Dave said: "Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners. (Extract from Ten Downing Street website).
In the first place I'm not really sure 'practitioners' agree, Ben Molyneux, chair of the BMA's junior doctor committee writing in the Guardian on Friday 18 January 2013: "I resent Cameron knocking the European working time directive – not working 100-hour weeks has probably saved lives."
After all, working long hours is bad for your health, irrespective of what country you are from, as David DiSalvo says in an article in Forbes.com - Why Working More Than 8 Hours A Day Can Kill You:
If you’re accustomed to being the last one to leave the office, new research may offer you cause to rethink your routine.
The study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, shows that a combination of stress, raised blood pressure and unhealthy diets stemming from long working hours may be the cause of thousands of workers’ serious health problems....and....A 2011 British survey [... ] revealed that doing more than 11 hours of work a day raised heart disease risks by 67 percent...
The 'Nasty' Conservative Party is back then, showing their true colours, a priority for them an opt out from the Working Time Directive. Which can mean only one thing they want worse working conditions for UK workers - they think the health and well-being of UK workers is worth less than others in Europe. And we the 'servants' should bloody well agree.....
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Not sure what you are banging on abut, doctors these days, thanks to the last Labour govt are raking in the dosh, most are on £100k+ a year for working much shorter hours than they ever used to. I'm not on about surgeons and consultants, they deserve top dollar, I'm on about lazy GPs. As far as I am concerned these are merely the interface between we patients and the real doctors in the hospitals for whom I have the highest respect. When I aksed my GP for a PSA test he tried to put me off saying I would only be opening a can of worms. Just as well that I did open that can of worms because shortly afterwards I was operated on at the Christie hospital to remove my prostate which had the most aggressive type of cancer. Had I listened to the idiot at the surgery I would be pushing up the daisies today. As I said GPs work shorter hours for loadsa money which in my opinion they do not earn. Good on you Dave get the buggers working for the big money they get.
Matters of health in Wales are devolved. And hence the abysmal quality of the NHS in Wales.
Luckily I have my GP in England.
I actually had to go and live with my daughter in England and register with a GP there to get the funding for my robotic surgery at the Christie - funding was refused by my LHB. What I was offered locally was Hobsons choice of accepting second grade treatment here. The conclusiion is that YG and Glan Clwyd are no better than the old cottage hospitals in the standard of treatments they offer, anything outside of the run-of-the-mill surgery has to be referred to the excellent hospitals in Liverpool and Manchester to whom we in North Wales should be eternallty grateful. The Welsh only have themselved to blame for voting for devolution in the first pkace.
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