First-year resident doctors back strike action over jobs shortage
In their first applications in the UK, new qualified doctors voted in favor of strike action due to the shortage of work.
The British Medical Association (BMA) Association said that thousands of resident doctors ended without specialization training places when they finished the second year of education.
This year there were 10,000 jobs for 30,000 candidates, but some of them will be doctors from abroad.
The issue was discussed by the BMA and the government during the talks that started after a fee strike in July.
However, by officially a job for the strike action, it leads to a new way for industrial action.
97% of those who vote for the strike action with 65%.
President of the BMA’s resident Doctor Committee. Jack Fletcher, “Doctors openly spoke – will not accept that they are facing a career at a time when the demand for doctors is too big.
“The numbers are ridiculous – more than 10,000 doctors this year, applied to be a psychiatrist who can take less than 500, but patients are still experiencing significant expectations in harming their health.”
GP said that unemployment is getting worse, and every GP was applying for a training task, and that the patient demand for an appointment continued to increase.
“It doesn’t make sense that thousands of willing and talented doctors cannot find the job to start treating them, despite the need to reduce the waiting lists and increase the capacity of patients.”
The government announced the current pledge specified within the scope of the 10 -year NHS plan to increase the training places by 1000.
BMA argued that there is a rapid expansion of the medical school at the university, but the NHS was not able to create sufficient training tasks.
Dr Fletcher added: “These two disputes – payment and jobs – by putting together, we give the government the chance to create a plan that supports and develops the workforce that comes to the generation of the next generation.
“Patients need doctors for their work. Doctors need to know that they will have jobs. And they need to know what to pay in their value.”
However, the health secretary Wes Streeting was determined that he would not negotiate on payment, and instead the team negotiations focused on working conditions, exam fees, rotas and career progress.
After a 22% wage increase in resident doctors in the last two years, this year, this year comes with an increase of 5.4%.
After taking into account inflation, BMA says the salary was fifth lower than in 2008.
