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Originally Posted by nomadking
Avoided? Based on the banners, there's meant to be more to it than that. There are to be restrictions on how much Saturday work they are allowed to do, a 30% addition for working a 2nd Saturday in a month, along with the 13.5% overall pay increase to covered reduced weekend rates. Why are Saturdays a problem for the BMA?
So all these studies over the years, by so many organisations, around the world are all skewed? Many have focussed on a single medical condition, often where there is NO question about whether somebody should be admitted or not.
The Lancet, May 2015
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All these studies aren't the one hunt has been citing as the rationales for his proposals, the one he keeps using is wrong.
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Originally Posted by martyh
I think we are focusing too much on one thing here .Putting the "weekend effect" aside ,what's wrong with striving for a 7 day NHS anyway ? just about everything else in our lives is 7 days so why not our health care ?
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Nothing is wrong with it if it can be staffed but if we haven't got the staff for 5 days 7 is going to prove tricky especially if you actually believe the hours are going to be cut