Tory MP and GP wants junior doctors to call off their proposed strikes
SARAH WOLLASTON, a Conservative MP and GP, has urged junior doctors “to step back” from their proposed strike action.
Sarah Wollaston (left) has urged junior doctors “to step back” from their proposed strike
The doctor and chairman of the Commons Health Select Committee, said: "This strike is going to be very damaging for patients and a risk for doctors.
"The risk is undermining how people feel about doctors."
The MP for Totnes in Devon said the strikes would cause “absolute harm to patients” and she urged junior doctors to “step back from this”.
She said there may be genuine grievances but said the junior doctors should “not put patients at risk”.
Sarah Wollaston MP is also a doctor and chairman of the Commons Health Select Committee
This strike is going to be very damaging for patients and a risk for doctors
Dr Wollaston called the action “entirely disproportionate” and said that the public will be very concerned about the impact on patients.
She claimed that a minority of the junior doctor leadership had turned this into a “political dispute” and wanted to being down the Government.
She said there may be genuine grievances but junior doctors should 'not put patients at risk'
The junior doctors have called five days of strikes every month until 2017
The Tory MP urged the Government to keep talking in this “absolutely exhausting dispute” which she said 'would hurt patients and damage reputations'.
The junior doctors have called five days of strikes every month until 2017.