Doctor strikes: BMA says 5-day walkout will go ahead even if heatwave alerts issued
The British Medical Association said that a five -day strike by young doctors will continue even if health warnings are published as a result of hot weather.
As a part of the wage dispute with the government, as well as young doctors, doctors settled in the UK will strike on July 25th from 7 am on July 25th.
Industrial action, even if the temperatures rise again next week, will lead to death warning, the Association of Doctors told Independent.
Amber last week Heat health warning was given for large regions of the UK, and the authorities were likely to lead to high temperatures at the weekend.
While the hot and dry air roasted the country, the UK Health Safety Agency raised less severe yellow warnings in five regions and warned a “an important effect ında in the affected areas, including“ increase in deaths ..
Although there is currently no warning for the next week, Met Office long -range estimation warns that the temperatures are “expected to be normal for the majority of England during this period” and “probable to develop some hot conditions”.
When asked whether the planned strikes will continue even if there are health warnings due to air, a BMA spokesman said: “During all previous strikes, NHS and UK had a decided system that voluntarily returned to the resident doctors in case of safety concerns about the services arising from conditions arising from the conditions arising from the conditions arising from the conditions related to industrial action.
“This is related to the demands of individual trusts and services, so it is taken according to the situation”.
Professor Robert Winston, a flow of labor that has become the name of a household through documentaries about child development, warned BMA to harm the people’s confidence in the profession of the “extremely dangerous” industrial action by BMA.
However, BMA’s new leader said that 29 percent of doctors’ wage demand is “bargaining ve and stimulated strikes could continue for years.
Before the discussions planned later this week, the health secretary Wes Streeting said that BMA was pleased that BMA accepted “sitting and talking to try and prevent these strikes”.
However, in his statement to Sky News, he stressed that the government was “really clear” that he would not reopen this year’s payment award. “I’m very clear that we can’t go to pay more – we’ve already given them a wage increase of 28.9 percent; This year, they had the biggest wage payment of the entire public sector. For this reason, it would be unfair to other NHS staff and other public sector employees. ”
However, he added that “healing the lives of resident doctors, developing the service for patients and giving everyone a win from this situation”.
Dr. BMA. Tom Dolphin said that the union would not negotiate or accept on a figure of 29 percent, that it has been the scope of real loss of real earnings since 2008-a salary they want to be restored as a full.
He also claimed that the request was reasonable and easily suitable for NHS.
However, a survey at the weekend claimed that public support has collapsed for such a strike.
Last summer, doctor strikes with the support of 52 percent of the questions, while the latest planned industrial action is only four, 26 percent, supported by public members.
The Ministry of Health was approached for comment.
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