Patients come last

FOLLOWING reckless walkouts by nurses and ambulance drivers over Christmas, it was depressingly predictable that junior doctors from the belligerent British medical Association would threaten a three- day strike in march.

not only will their actions imperil patients, their demands for a 26 per cent pay rise are utterly fanciful. Even Labour has admitted it wouldn’t sanction such ruinous increases.

Junior doctors are universally admired. They are the backbone of our already crisis-hit emergency care services.

But if people die as a direct result of their irresponsibility, that reputation would shatter beyond repair.