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Petition update, 14 November 2008

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SAS doctors and dentists provide around a third of NHS hospital care. We provide specialised treatment and are often just as experienced as consultants in many specialities. A new contract is proposed for April 2008 which has many disadvantages. This proposes a 25% pay reduction for the top salary in the new grade. "Normal" working hours have been extended to 7am-7pm. The small increase of our basic pay in this contract is not really an increase as the number of programmed hours has also increased. Worst of all, our payment for being on call and working out of hours is being considerably reduced to around £7 per hour. This is an insult to the amount of training we have undertaken and is not comparable to other professions. There is also no compulsion for management to provide ongoing training in developing areas. The new contract makes no attempt to provide opportunities for SAS doctors to re-enter their training pathway to gain specialist accreditation and many may therefore have their career blocked. Under the proposed contract there will be a significant deterioration in the quality of patient care.

Current signatories

Angela Geddes, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Kathleen Wilson
• David Cowell
• Dr John Wilson
• meg hunter
• margaret hunter
• Ronald Zuk
• Jocelyn Imrie
• Dr Mervyn Lee
• Chaitanya Bhatt
• jiten parmar
• Dr Nicholas Theobald
• M A Mansoor
• Linda Donaldson
• Dr Andrew Breakell
• Anjan K. Banerjee
• davd kinshuck
• James Park
• robert hunter
• Matthew L Dorman
• karin stone
• Tahir Farooq
• Dr. Nuri Alfasi
• Sarah Elizabeth Archer
• asif lodhi
• Mr Ashish Patwardhan
• ANIL RAJKUMAR
• Dr Uma Kulkarni Vaze
• Zeeshan Syed
• A.Soorjonowa
• Sarwat Bari
• Dr. Nu Nu Wynn
• N. AJITH KUMAR
• Dr. A. Salih
• antony giles
• JAGADISH SARDAR
• Neil Munro
• Sahar AL-ALi
• Dr Sheila Harshey
• i seferiadis,FRCS
• Surendra Shenoy
• Dr Mujahid Zaheer
• Dr. D. DEEPAK
• Radha.Dharmaratnam
• Aasheet Desai
• Dr.M.H.ANSARI
• Mohamed L Daramy
• Syed.Ejazul-Haq
• farrukh
• Amer Qureshi
• Ann Geddes
• Connie Choi
• D Saravanan
• Thomas Cole
• DK Sharma
• Asad Khan
• M MARGHOOB
• keshkar Gopee
• Andrea Wildsmith
• Barry Wright
• S. Sivakumar
• Will Woods
• Thurairatnam Kathirgamakarthigeyan
• Dr Taimur Mirza
• Devender Khurana
• Craig Dyer
• Sara Landy
• Caroline Love
• Mhairi Little
• Dr S Orpin
• Irene O'Hare
• Dr Andrew Winter
• Parmod Jain
• Roger Geddes
• Dr Caroline Hewitt
• Professor John Cunningham
• Dr M Bazza
• Janette Littleton
• Steven Farnell
• Nedal Zeineh
• Carolyn M Cole
• Dr Peter Featherstone
• Karen Gillvray
• tariq razzaq
• Dr Sujatha Gangadharan
• ashajames
• joan aynsley
• Rajesh Goel
• Andrew Fletcher
• Atif Agaiby
• Lucy Ghali
• Rajesh Bhardwaj
• John Gamon
• Charif Al-Sayyad
• nidal hammoud
• Shah HUSAIN
• Christine Boyd
• sara barker
• sudha mittal
• Joy Osborne
• Sarita Jain
• Kate Powell
• Ravi Sachidananda
• HELEN GALVIN
• Dr Rosemary Fok
• Tapas Goswami
• Stella Edward
• Kat Murray
• Alison Hooper
• Jonathan Corlett
• R DAVIS
• dr marta makowska
• Dr Elizabeth Todd
• Glenda Hill
• Jon Coldewey
• Mr. Rodney Bernard Price FRCS
• Carol Ann Groombridge
• Francois Nieuwoudt
• David Pearce
• Dr Assem Khouzam
• safi butler
• Shachi H Buch
• anand swaminathan
• M Marai
• Aditi Chakrabarti
• JOSEPHINE LACK
• Dr Dauda Balami
• kalavathi kumaresan
• verina Costoli
• Mr N Toumia
• Austin Churm
• Claire Barr
• MR Samy Y G BISHIERI, MRCOG
• Fuzia Eshin
• Jean Duerden
• mutaaz masaarane
• simon tilston
• Louis Vanderstraeten
• Cathy Christie
• Vrinda Bajaj
• Dick King
• S King
• James
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• Wendy Williams
• Dr.M.Osborne
• Dr. H Al-Rawi
• Dr Prakash Gowda
• Dr.Chowdhury
• Dr Robin Stones
• John and Mary Farnell
• Y. Takwoingi
• sn shah
• Wahid Eskander
• Mr Ahmad Dabbagh
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• Dr Menzies Schrader
• Dr George Paul
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• Mr. Prakash Salunke
• Tunde Peto
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• Farrukh Majid
• Vijayalakshmi Kamisetty
• Moustafa Issa
• Mr. H. El-Wakeel, MBChB MSc FRCS
• catherine jarvis
• Paul McMurray
• akil elewa
• CHINNASWAMY CHEZHIAN
• Hasnain Dalal
• Mr A J Khan
• S Mansoor
• Isam Al-Qurainy
• muhsin asmar
• Mr.K M Arain
• nahreen.hasso
• Mr A Kasem, Surgeon Princess Royal University hospital - Bromley hospitals
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• Dr K Rao
• Ruth Ting
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• Dr.Udaya Bhanu B
• Thomas Obermaier
• Mary Mealyea
• Josephine Woodhouse
• Ruth Blair
• Dr Jarek Nowacki, MD, MRCS
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• Louise Middlefell
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• Dr Dino Matthews
• Sumati BOTHRA
• Reem Farah
• debra kennedy
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• Lesley Baird
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• Dr.I.U.Shah
• MR. M.N.PATRUDU
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• k.vijayalakshmi
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• Caroline Lutman
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• Dr. Firas Abou-Auda
• sanjay kumar sinha
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• Damien O'Leary
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• Dr. Hanne Sinding FRCA
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• Dr Arshad Khan
• Dr.Anne E. Currie B.Sc.(Hons).M.B.Ch.B,M.R.C.P.C.H.
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• Dr.Praveen Kumar
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• Mohammed alsheikh
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• Purnendu Majumdar
• Dr Brian Kendall
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• Louise Robinson
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