Remedy Scotland

We need as much support on 14th July as we can muster.

Please download and print our Remedy Protest Poster and pin it up at your place of work, community centre… or just on the fridge at home!

For immediate release 04/07/2007
FAO News Desk

On Saturday July 14th 2007 Remedy Scotland will be leading doctors in Scotland in a protest march through the centre of Glasgow.

This protest will raise awareness of forced medical unemployment, the “dumbing down” of medical training, and the expected severe disruption to the National Health Service in Scotland.

The Scottish Executive have shown a willingness to listen to and act in support of junior doctors, but there are still many grave problems that need to be addressed. Remedy intends to push this issue further into public view since it affects the health of every man, woman and child in Scotland.

British doctors feel betrayed by a bureaucratic government that has refused to listen, that ploughs ahead with ill-thought-out changes and that treats its professional employees with disdain. The new SNP-led executive has a chance now to show that it can do things differently.

The Scottish Patients Association and the Scottish Health Campaigns Network will support this protest.
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Our campiagn for a better, fairer system for junior doctors is growing. Many of our volunteers are junior doctors who do not yet have an appointment for August 2007.

However, we also need help from other areas of the medical profession, and from other groups and individuals in Scotland.

Consultants and SpRs

… because the changes affecting junior doctors affect the entire medical profession.

Junior doctors who do have jobs in August

… because if change is not implemented, the quality of your training will be affected.

Nurses, Ambulance Crews and Hospital Support Staff

… because devaluing the role of junior doctors weakens the NHS as a whole

Unions, Community Groups and individual members of the public

… because doctors trained with taxpayers money are leaving the NHS and leaving the country.

We need volunteers to work not just on a national level, but to co-ordinate the campaigns on a regional, hospital and surgery level. If you would like to contribute, even for just an hour per week, please contact us by e-mailing help@remedy-scotland.org.uk.