We urge the Prime Minister to end                         the Junior Doctors' Dispute
Dear Prime Minister

NHS staff, past and present, we write to you to seek your immediate intervention in the Junior Doctors' dispute.

We share your passion for patient safety and clinical excellence. However, this should not involve the misuse of statistics to impose a new contract on some of the most committed, hard working and value-driven individuals in our country. Junior doctors have a deep commitment to the NHS and their patients. They give up their personal and professional lives for the NHS 24hrs a day 7 days a week. On more than one occasion now they have been pushed into facing the abyss and take strike action rather than care for their patients.

Our fear, held by many is that if this dispute continues many more doctors will follow the current trend and leave the country to work abroad as they feel disillusioned and unhappy with how they are being treated by your government.

Many of us have said that this dispute is not about doctors seeking more pay, rather it is about ensuring a safe and fair contract for all doctors no matter what specialty they work in or what stage of their career they are at.

The leading US health policy expert Don Berwick said recently that it was vital to “de-escalate” the conflict between the government and the junior doctors, which would otherwise stand in the way of the quality improvement the NHS needs. He said, "The government should apologise. It would be an act of generosity and courage.”  We agree with these sentiments, whole-heartedly.

This prolonged dispute is damaging our NHS, our patients and our profession. We urge you to withdraw the imposition of the new contract so that a safe and fair solution can be found.

Dr Clare Gerada
Dr Kailash Chand
Dr David Wrigley
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