Workload of junior docs 'puts patient lives at risk'

A DOSSIER of damning safety concerns from junior doctors has revealed how hospital patients' lives are being put at risk by dangerous levels of understaffing.

- Matthew Davis

Some medics, just weeks out of the classroom, had been left in charge as sickness and workloads dragged more senior staff away.

One told how their caseload led them to collapse while another was so exhausted she ended up in tears.

It comes after the British Medical Association announced more junior doctors strikes from this Wednesday until Saturday.

It warned members are prepared to down tools "throughout the summer" unless the Government "puts forward a credible" pay rise.

Junior doctors own say their health has suffered, they have had to work dangerously long hours and the safety of patients is in jeopardy.

All the claims are made in reports which they have been able to lodge with hospital management if they believe working practices are dangerous.