Streeting vows to keep disruption to a minimum as doctor strike begins

Health Secretary Wes Streeting promises NHS services to work by resident doctors as a five -day strike.

He said disorder NHS will be kept at a minimum after ordering hospitals to cancel treatment only in exceptional cases.

In previous strikes, focus focused on emergency care personnel, but this time NHS strives To continue running non -emergency services. Senior doctors include the 12th time in payment dispute – for young doctors who are stunning.

The British Medical Association said that the ministers had the opportunity to stop the strike and warned that these personnel were stretched very finely.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who wrote at The Times in front of the strike He called for resident doctors not to follow their unions not to follow the “damaging way”.

Despite the efforts made by NHS leaders, he criticized the British Medical Association (BMA) for “hurry” to strikes, while the strike would cause “NHS and a major loss for the country”.

Sir Keir said that the walks were threatened to “reject the clock for our progress to rebuild last year”.

Streeting said: “There is no exceeding the fact that these strikes will progress in turning NHS.”

However, he added: “I am determined to keep the disruption at a minimum in patients.”

The members of the people are asked to come to the fore for NHS care during the strike and are asked to participate in the appointments unless they are canceled.

GP said that the operations will be opened as usual and will continue to exist with Emergency maintenance and A & E with NHS 111.

The strike, the negotiations between the government and the BMA continue on Tuesday.

These talks focused on non -payment issues such as the cost of the exam fees and career progress, after saying that the streeting fee was not open to negotiation.

BMA says that despite an average wage increase of 5.4% this year after an increase of 22% in the previous two years, the wage has fallen fifth since 2008 after the inflation has been taken into consideration.

In the first basic years after completing his medical degree established doctors in the UK 38,831 £ earn basic salaryHe worked an average of 48 hours a week. In the second year, this rises to 44,439 £. It exceeds £ 73,000 at the end of education salaries.

Medical staff is usually expected to work on night shifts for additional payments, weekends and longer hours. On average, they complete their earnings more than a quarter.

BMA resident Doctor’s joint leaders, Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr Ross Nieuwoudt said: “Settlement doctors are not worth less than 17 years ago.

“Restoring the wage continues to be the simplest and most effective way to improve our working lives.

“Mr. Streeting had every opportunity to prevent this strike from continuing, but he chose not to take it.”

Previous marches first led to mass cancellations with more than one million appointments and cancellation of treatment during the settled doctor strikes that first started in March 2023.

Some hospitals were able to provide only half of the normal amount of routine care on strike days.

However, NHS sources, this time, said that some hospitals plan full programs after the new approach of giving priority to both urgent and non -emergency care.

“We learned lessons from past strikes – this will feel very different,” they added.

“It is really important to reduce cancellations, because sometimes people have been waiting for routine hip prosthesis or hysterectomy or any appointment for any months, and the re -planning of appointments lead to their effects and physical and psychological damages.”

However, he said it was inevitable that there would still be some deterioration, but he warned patients to still use NHS if they need it.

While the majority of resident doctors work in hospitals, some GP applications and community services may also be affected.

One of the affected, his three -year -old daughter, 32 -year -old Hassna Shahid of Bradford, who canceled the lung surgery on Monday.

It has a rare lung condition, that is, it may be at serious risk if it captures cough or colds.

“It was an emotional roles. Very annoying, Hass Hassnin said.

However, BMA warned that the new approach could cause even bigger problems and risk safety.

NHS wrote to the UK to tell the employee to tell very thinly stretching. The Union said it would be better to significantly reduce non -urgent care as before.

Toray Shadow Health Secretary Stuart Andrew said that strikes threatened to drag hospitals into chaos and “exposure to patients in a dangerous way”.

“Labour’s transformation into union demands last year opened its door.

“Without reforms, they distributed the increases of wage from inflation-boky, and now BMA has returned to more.”

However, Rory Deighton of the NHS Confederation, representing the facade health managers, said, “The effect of these strikes and the distress that patients will rely on BMA.”