Sue Perkins supports junior doctors

Speaking to The Last Leg, a comedy talkshow on Channel 4, comedian writer Sue Perkins speaks about the junior doctors strike.

“What I think possibly causes deaths is giving junior doctors contracts where they have to work thirteen hour shifts, have a day off and then straight back on it for three days straight.”

“Meanwhile the tabloid newspapers are running them down, humiliating them, publishing stories which make all their education and their brilliance go for nothing.”

She continues saying: “And the fact that these people after the end of that long working week are placed with our lives in their hands: that is what cold potentially kill people. And that is why everybody should support junior doctors.”

“I am sick of it.”

This comes after junior doctors have taken 24-hour strikes across January, February and upcoming strikes March through to April.

The strike action is a result of an enforced contract resulting in pay cuts and the slashing of premium rates and the possibility of longer hours.