Wes Streeting tells striking doctors they CAN have higher pay… but only if they agree to slash gold-plated pensions
Wes Streeting suggested that striking doctors may have a higher wage – if they agree to cut off their pensions.
The health secretary put the option on the table as he launched an attack on the decision to make a five -day strike.
The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that at the beginning of this week, the resident doctors in England and Wales – young doctors – on July 25 in the morning will take industrial action in a row.
The government increased by 5.4 percent, but eye demands irrigation 29.2 percent to obtain ‘full wage restoration’.
Nurses also vote in the strike action and increase the possibility of a greater deterioration for patients.
Today, Mr. Streeting, who made a statement at Commons, condemned the action as ‘unreasonable’ and ‘tragic’ – he would ruin efforts to clear the waiting lists after Covid.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting put the option on the table while starting an attack on the decision to make a five -day strike
He emphasized that doctors received the highest settlements in the public sector that lasted for two years and that other workers ‘tufts more’.
Streeting, “ Five -day strike action, patients and families of the patients and their families, often expected to expect the operation or appointment of the appointment is said to have been canceled and delayed for a long time, ”he said.
‘I know how to feel if this was a member of my family waiting right now, and I asked them to think about how they would feel a member.’
Mr Streeting, settled doctors ‘pile line’, although other NHS staff ‘parts will work in more difficult conditions to meet the results’ he said.
He said: ‘Re -negotiating this year’s payment award would be deeply unfair to all other public officials. Such an agreement will be paid by their future gains and with the greatest respect of established doctors, in our public services, there are people who feel more than they are.
This is not appropriate, even if there is no unfair to public sector employees. It should be open to everyone that public finances inherited by this government are not shaken by cash.
I mean, I will not negotiate this year’s payment award. And if I don’t know that I can hide them, I will not promise the resident doctors to the garden path. ‘
LBC later talked about the Radio, retirement containers and the host payment about the relationship between the ‘discussion’ is open, he said.
The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that at the beginning of this week, the located doctors in England and Wales – young doctors – will take industrial action on July 25 in the morning.
Critics are generally inflation -resistant, recent salary linked pensions in the public sector, the private sector is no longer a great benefit.
Mr. Streeting said: ‘The retirement pot is that when people become consultants, we have this because they are so great that consultants make lobbying to change the tax rules, because they are very taxed in their pension because they are valuable,’ Oh, I may not bother to work. I am retired very valuable. ‘
“ Now, if BMA wants to come to me, you know? Considering this difficulty, we think that we prefer to get a slightly less generous pension to have a higher wage today … These are the problems you can enter in a discussion.
But I offered to talk. They didn’t take me.
‘And this is one of the many reasons I think it is irrational.’
The resident doctors have moved 11 times since 2022 and led to the cancellation or re -planned of the appointment of approximately 1.5 million appointments.
BMA Pension Committee President Vishal Sharma said: ‘To be open, the tax rules were not changed because the doctors’ pensions were “very generous”, but the rules have created a deviable situation where doctors pay to work, to reject the extra work, to cut the clocks and to retire early.
`In the meantime, in the last 17 years, as a result of the real-Ers deductions for the payment of doctors, the amount they received in retirement has decreased significantly.
‘Doctors need to realize their wages in a real sense – something already happening for those who are comparable to comparable professions, but unacceptable to pay their pensions.
The health secretary did not approach us about this offer, but this is something we will clearly reject.
‘Such an offer is not’ wage increase ‘; The exchange of the future pension in exchange for a small amount of additional cash would leave doctors even worse. ‘
