Starmer pleads with resident doctors to halt strike
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resident doctors called not to follow the troops of “harmful way” of the strike action that will start on Friday.
Writing in The TimesSir Keir criticized the British Medical Association (BMA) for “hurrying” while “NHS and a big loss for the country”, he said.
Settled Doctors – New Terim for Young Doctors – Start a five -day strike In the UK at 07:00, BST is a paid dispute.
BMA said that “strikes are very sad” and “something doctors do not want to do”.
Sir Keir said that the walks were threatened to “reject the clock for our progress to rebuild last year”.
Since August this year, resident doctors will increase by 5.4% after a 22% increase in the last two years.
However, BMA said that even after an increase in August, the BMA was really 20% lower than 2008.
BMA wants to be brought back in parallel with the level it was 17 years ago when they say that their wages began to vaccinate.
Prime Minister’s comments, Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Thursday in a letter to the located doctors, “we found ourselves in the position we found” deeply regretted.
The authority said that the government cannot afford to go further with wages, but is “ready to negotiate in areas related to your work and career progress”.
Streeting, the payment agreement is “the highest wage award of the entire public sector for established doctors”.
During a series of meetings with BMA representatives this month, he said he summarized the three areas he believed in “we can work together to make real improvements”.
This included overcoming “challenging” training and made it clear that he was ready to accept actions to reduce costs.
Equipment, food and beverage costs are needed to improve and “how many more training tasks can be created,” he said.
The strike, the negotiations between the government and the BMA continue on Tuesday.
Throughout the five -day negotiations, the two sides discussed extra financial support to meet the cost of settled doctors and the cost of exam fees and equipment and faster career progress.
BMA requested a plan to help write student loans, but the government rejected it.
BMA leader Dr Tom Dolphin said: “We are very sad that strikes become necessary, and of course people have emergency situations or if they need urgent care, they need to offer them to the hospital or GP as usual as usual.
“Striking is something that doctors do not want to do,” he said, and if a “real way” was made to restore the “loss value” of the wage, he added that walks can be avoided.
He said BMA was open to more discussions about the dissolution of the dispute.
NHS British National Director Profess Tim Briggs said that while doctors have the right to strike, they should never cause patient damage.
Senior doctors are asked to give guarantee, but Prof. BRIGGS expressed concerns about the impact on both urgent and non -emergency care.
NHS UK aims to maintain most of non -urgent care, such as ongoing knee and hip operations during this strike, which points to a change in the approach compared to the previous industrial effect when such a treatment is canceled.
BMA believed that this approach was not safe-and to ensure that emergency services were better met, non-emergency care should be canceled in many cases, he said.
Settled doctors have been interested in 11 strikes in long -term wage disputes that have led to more than one million treatment and cancellation of the appointment.
Prof Briggs told the BBC to the BBC: “We know from the Pandemik and the last strike, if you cancel them [non-urgent] Many patients are waiting for a significant amount, these patients are damaged.
“You cannot do elective and emergency maintenance, the two go together.”
Meanwhile, NHS managers also criticized the inflated shift rates of shift rates demanded by senior doctors to provide a cover for stunning doctors.
Daniel Elkeles, one of the NHS providers representing health managers, said that the strike would be a “overwhelming blow” for patients.
Another “great concern” said that BMA suggests that senior doctors want “inflated rates”.
BMA advised senior doctors to insist on premium rates that consultants could exceed £ 300 per hour for night shifts.
This may mean that they can normally earn three floors.
BMA said that doctors should be encouraged to undertake this extra work.
