We are seeking support of all the major patient associations and medical charities in the UK (listed below) to pressurize the Department of Health to firstly, drop the contract changes for doctors that they plan to unilaterally impose; secondly, to start negotiating fairly with the British Medical Association to plan a secure future for all patients and the NHS. Thirdly, we also ask that they help raise public awareness of the implications of the current junior doctor contract proposals. All of us and our loved ones will at some point be a patient within the NHS. The implications of this contract affect all of us.

The government plans to impose an unsafe and unfair contract on UK doctors of all grades below consultant level (junior doctors). This will include the redefinition of normal working hours to a potential 90 hour week (7am to 10pm Monday to Saturday) and removal of the current out of hour pay supplement. This will lead to a significant pay cut for most doctors (estimated between 10-30%) and increased unsocial working hours. Current safeguards that penalize hospitals for overworking doctors are to be removed and David Cameron has previously asked for the new doctor’s contracts not to be bound by the European working time directive. Many doctors are planning to leave the profession or the country if this contract is enforced, as we have no other choices. The NHS is the only UK employer of doctors in training below consultant level. The ones that remain will be demoralised, overworked and mistakes with significant consequences will occur due to staff exhaustuion. This contract threatens the safety of all patients in the UK and the very existence of the NHS. This is a point that has been echoed by 13 medical royal colleges, the British Medical Association and former conservative health minister, Dan Poulter MP. The government plans to implement this contract by force in August 2016.

We are appealing to all members of the public, in addition to all health care professionals to sign this petition. If you are a healthcare professional, we would appreciate it if you could add your registration number in the comments section when you sign. When we have enough signatures we will approach each one of the listed associations below to gather support.

Click here for our letter to the charities juniorcontract.blogspot.com

Our fate is in your hands. Thank you for your time.



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Destination charities list...

Action for Sick Children | Age UK | Alzheimer’s Research UK | Alzheimer’s Society | Arthritis Care | Arthritis Research UK | Asthma UK | Bowel Cancer UK | British Diabetic Association | Brain and Spine Foundation UK | Brains Trust | Breakthrough Breast Cancer | British Lung Foundation | British Heart Foundation | Cancer Research UK | Changing Faces | Crohn's and Colitis UK | Cystic Fibrosis Trust | Diabetes UK | Deafblind UK | Encephalitis Society | Epilepsy Society | Genetic Alliance UK | Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity | James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer | Kidney Alliance | Kidney Research UK | Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research | Leukaemia CARE | Macmillan Cancer Support | Maggie’s | Marie Curie Cancer Care | Medical Research Council UK | MIND | Motor Neuron Disease Association | Multiple Sclerosis Society | Muscular Dystrophy UK | Myeloma UK | National Childbirth Trust | National Rheumatoid Arthritis | SocietyNational Kidney Federation | Patient's Association | Rainbow Trust | Royal National Institute for the Blind | Pain UK | Parkinson’s Disease Society | Prostate Cancer UK | SCOPE | The Disabilities Trust | The Lymphoma Association | The Migraine Trust | The Stroke Association | Target Ovarian Cancer | Well UK | Wellcome Trust | Young Minds