It's time for Jeremy to hold up his hands and admit he's made a mistake in how he's dealt with the junior doctors. He is the wrong person taking on the wrong people in the wrong way in an argument based on incorrect information.

1. He has no experience of how the NHS actually works, to spearhead such a radical policy they should have used someone with first hand experience of working in the NHS. He has also proven himself untrustworthy through previous dealing as media and sports secretary, and again during the expenses scandal. He's just not a face you can trust, and not the person to be in charge of the NHS.

2. Junior doctors already work the most weekends and nights. Changing their contract will in no way improve the ability of hospitals to work 24/7, but will merely set a precedent for other healthcare workers contract changes. If he thought junior doctors would be an easy starting point he was sorely mistaken. By taking his current stance he will sap all goodwill out of the NHS, meaning they will no longer be prepared to put in the extra unpaid hours they currently do, this goodwill is the backbone on which the NHS is held up and without it the NHS will collapse.

3. He has been far too confrontational. By labelling junior doctors as 'radicals' and overseeing media smear campains he has successfully united the whole NHS and a large proportion of society against him and his policies. Claiming the BMA are misleading doctors is insulting to a group of highly intelligent, educated and dedicated people. they are all capable of analysing the information and coming to their own conclusions and to suggest the BMA are being misleading in the face of Hunt's outright lies is fueling their fire.

4. he is basing his arguments for increasing weekend services on incorrect data. He regularly misquotes studies, or just pulls statistics out of thin air to support his arguments. The main studies he quotes are heavily disputed and the credibility of the studies is dubious. He has been told this and is aware, but continues to use false statistics to mislead the media.

I, for one, have lost all faith in the Conservative government, having been a conservative my whole life. They will lose my vote unless they reverse their stance on this, admit they are wrong, and get back around the negotiating table

They're right to question him. The 3 studies he has used to justify his can be summarised as follows:
1. Keogh's paper: define the weekend as friday morning to monday evening. explicitly says that to claim staffing levels are to blame for increased deaths would be rash and misleading
2. Obstetric paper: claimed weekend significantly worse than week. Actually Tuesdays had significantly lower mortality than the rest of the days of the week, which were fairly similar (including sat and sun). Compared Weekend to Tuesday rather than whole week
3. Stroke mortality (most recent one used). This was actually not a bad one, but it's out of date. Since this paper was published stroke services have been centralised and you now have fully staffed 24/7 care and can get essential treatment any time on any day in a timely matter. If he actually knew what he was doing he could have used this as an example of how to improve 24/7 care (incidently much of the 24/7 care is by consultants and nurse specialists,nothing to do with junior doctors!), but he's hashed it up pretty badly and noone's going to believe him now!

I have voted conservative all my life, I am from a family that has also done so. I represented the conservative party in our school's mock general elections. I went to public school. I am about as safe a tory vote as there probably is, but this government has changed my opinion.

The way hunt has conducted himself in these Junior doctor negotiations is appalling. These are the people who have worked hard and achieved highly since school. They are highly intelligent, highly educated, and highly skilled individuals. They deserve good working conditions and a good wage. If we can throw billions at the bankers, who continue to take the piss with their tax avoidance and huge bonuses we can afford to properly fund the NHS. If we insist on full services over 7 days we need to fund it rather than trying to force a generation of highly skilled professionals to work more antisocial hours for no extra pay.

The NHS is held together by the good will of the people working in it. Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, radiographers, Physios and all other health professionals all work above and beyond and do not ask for more. These people should be treated with respect, not with hunt's unique brand of arrogance and incompetence.

For all the health professionals considering emigrating, good for you. You deserve to be treated with respect and be able to deliver your skillset in a safe environment. I'm sure saving an australian's life comes with about the same level of satisfaction as saving a British person's life.

Hunt need to go and we need to start treating these people with the respect they deserve.