BMA chair: Junior doctors understandably think my generation has not protected the profession

Junior doctors believe that their senior colleagues have not done enough to safeguard the future of the profession, says the BMA’s council chair, Philip Banfield.In an interview with The BMJ Banfield reflected on how senior doctors felt about continuing to support the industrial action undertaken by their junior colleagues as part of a dispute over pay.“The longer it goes on, I’m sure the more tired consultants will become,” he said. “But the junior doctors would say, and I’ve got some sympathy with this, that the reason we’re in the state we’re in is because my generation has not protested enough, has not protected the profession, and has let the service deteriorate.”Banfield said that in many cases the industrial action had opened consultants’ eyes to the working conditions of their junior colleagues. He explained, “A lot of consultants who have undertaken cover and shift work have said, ‘We had no idea…
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