BMA rejects NHS claim that less than third of resident doctors went on strike | NHS
The Association of Doctors rejected the NHS figures, which showed that less than one -third of the resident doctors participated in the strike action in the UK last week and 93% of planned operations and procedures continued.
NHS England, the latest doctor strike compared to last year over 10,000 patients looking at more, health secretary Wes Streeting seized the figures and “time to cross the deterioration cycle,” he said.
However, the British Medical Association (BMA) rejected the figures, complex work programs and doctors who have permitted, said how many people participated in the action.
According to the early analysis of management information, the number in the five -day strike decreased by 7.5% in the previous industrial action round. NHS, England, said it would publish fuller data on time.
Previously known as young doctors, the resident doctors went on strike by demanding a 29% wage increase and became increasingly involved in a word war with the government who refused to negotiate with wages.
Streeting said this weekend: “The majority of resident doctors did not vote for the strike action and the data shows that less than one -third of the inhabitants have participated.
“I want to end this unnecessary dispute and call on BMA to work with the government in good faith in our common efforts to improve the working lives of established doctors instead of doing more reckless strike action.”
However, BMA said: “NHS’s claim that the majority of the Britain’s 77,000 resident doctors have chosen to ‘participate in NHS -diameter efforts to keep the services open, and it is almost impossible to know the number of residents working on any day due to complex working models, call programs and strikes during a weekend.
“In addition, in July, many doctors use the remaining annual leave before their new tasks begin, and therefore will not appear strikingly.
“If Mr. Sokak came and came, if he had come to the table with a reliable offer that the resident doctors in the UK could be accepted, the strike could be prevented as much as possible.”
The resident doctors constitute approximately half of all doctors in NHS, and have experience up to eight years of three or thirds working in hospitals or in general practice.
Some NHS Trivers experienced minimum interruptions from the latest strike. Western Hertfordshire Training Hospitals Trust carried out 98% of the planned activities, while the University College London hospitals Trust and Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust both performed 95%.
NHS General Manager James Mackey said that as a result of the strike, it was still broken for thousands of people and that any repetition would be “unacceptable”. He called on the committee of the resident doctors to “return to the negotiation table”.
NHS providers representing hospital confidences, the strike is damaged and confidences are concerned about the potential in health care industrial action, he said.
Saffron Cordery, Deputy General Manager of NHS providers, said: “This disagreement cannot be dragged. The Union says that the settled doctors want this to be the last strike.
“Trusts are worried that it is hard to minimize disruptions with the threat of wider industrial action in NHS and to keep patients safe.”
