The revolution begins tomorrow!
Conservative party leader David Cameron will be addressing the scheduled protest march by doctors. According to the Telegraph:
David Cameron will tomorrow call on the Government to be ready to scrap a controversial job selection system that has left thousands of able young doctors without jobs.
Before travelling to Nottingham to address a Conservative Party spring conference focused on the NHS and public services, Mr Cameron will address a rally in London of thousands of junior doctors and their families protesting about the chaos caused by a computerised system for job applications.
He will say that the new system should be ditched - and the old interview system restored - if a review ordered by the Government earlier this month finds serious flaws.
Andrew Lansley, Conservative health spokesman, said today that a consultant wrote to him this week and said that doctors today were “lions led by donkeys” - a phrase used originally about First World War soldiers.
Sounds about right given the other happenings today.
An earlier article mentions numbers.
As many as 5,000 to 10,000 junior doctors, consultants, their spouses, parents and families are likely to join the unprecedented demonstrations as anger and disillusion over the new system continue to grow.
Dr Judy King from RemedyUK, one of the organisers, said: “Its hard to talk about exact numbers but it could be five to 10,000 in London and hundreds in Glasgow”.
They are supported by the British Medical Association which is also calling for the system to be suspended and changes made.
The march starts at 10.15am at the Royal College of Physicians, St Andrew’s Place, and ends 12.30pm at Royal College of Surgeons in Lincolns Inn Fields.