Right after the Easter holidays, the BMA decided to walk out, and Health Secretary Wes Streeting is absolutely furious. He fired off a brutal public letter slamming the doctors for deliberately timing the walkouts to cause “maximum disruption”.
The government is growing so desperate that Streeting hasn’t even ruled out officially BANNING doctors from striking. Because the hospital managers are failing so miserably, the government is having to parachute elite “Hit Squads” directly into the worst-performing hospitals. These specialists are being sent in to stop the scandalous practice of “corridor care”, where sick, vulnerable patients are literally just dumped on trolleys in the hallways.
Inside the NHS, the scene is often described as a “breaking point.” Dr. Schnell D’sa, co-chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee, confirmed that on daily shifts, patients are frequently lined up in corridors, a situation that has sadly become a normalized “sub-standard experience” for patients.
This industrial action, involving thousands of resident doctors (formerly junior doctors), means senior medics (consultants) and other staff are stretched to the limit, trying to maintain emergency safety while managing significantly reduced staffing levels, notes BBC News.
And the failures of the state aren’t just limited to our hospitals. A massive national case review just exposed how social services totally failed to protect baby Victoria Marten from parents who were actively dodging the authorities across borders. The system is so broken that they’re only just now making rules demanding that registered sex offenders have to inform the police if they are expecting a child.
It shouldn’t take a horrific tragedy for common sense to prevail.
