Junior doctors in Great Britain will go through with a ballot for industrial action, after Jeremy Hunt, British health secretary proposed changes to their current contract, which, according to the BBC, has remained the same since the 1990s.
The changes to the contract will reportedly include an 11% pay raise at the price of curbed unsociable hours and a progression-based training process system, rather than one that is time-based.
Today, junior doctors received a letter from Hunt, an attempt to persuade them to vote against taking industrial action.
Many took to Twitter to comment on the junior doctors’ contract issue.
#YesYes for #patientsafety. Vote #juniordoctors in #notsafenotfair #juniorcontract. #SaveOurNHS pic.twitter.com/Zs7cURM5VA
— benjamin (@ProtocoIDriven) November 4, 2015
Jeremy Hunt is playing games with junior doctors & patients ! Using a spurious 'pay rise' to turn people against #juniordoctors ! Very sick!
— barhamm (@magwitch5151) November 4, 2015
can honestly say i've passed blood from every orifice thanks to being a #juniordoctors love this job but I feel it doesn't love me back #nhs
— gaps inbetween (@gapsinbetween) November 4, 2015
Wow so much anger on Twitter on way #juniordoctors are being treated JHs latest offer must be judged a serious fail
— David Shepherd (@davesheph) November 4, 2015
#JuniorDoctors got a letter from #JeremyHunt today. Looked optimistic Then we read it #Disappointed @TheBMA #juniorcontract #oneprofession
— Latifa (@DrLatifaPatel) November 4, 2015
Jeremy Hunt is so thick, he thinks junior doctors can't do basic sums #juniordoctors #juniorcontract
— Paul Evans (@Kalista63) November 4, 2015
How will you ensure #juniordoctors "are paid for every hour worked"? @nhsemployers
— Asuka Leslie (@AsukaLeslie) November 4, 2015
#c4news #juniordoctors earning £22,000/25,000 Outrageous after how many years training? Low wage economy supported by government. Did you BT
— Mike Draper (@MikeWDraper) November 4, 2015