I’M hoping you can help in delivering a message that the manner in which this government is treating junior doctors is wholly unacceptable.

We don’t buy the story that junior doctors will be better off with fewer hours and more money. The truth is that we are struggling to provide sufficient doctor cover now. What this government is proposing is to remove an overtime payment for weekend working, knowing full well that these doctors will continue to deliver weekend cover over and above the 60 hours but for less money.

This government is trying to do it on the cheap! The end result... doctors will become demoralised, make mistakes through being overworked and will leave the health service.

It’s privatisation via the back door. Stop this madness now.

RICHARD WESTON Netheravon