The doctor strike is ending

The five -day doctor’s strike in the UK may be ending, but it is clear that the dispute – 12 walks and counting – is far from ending.

Before the end of Wednesday at 07:00, Dr. “We’ve been disappointed by Wes Streeting,” Shivam Sharma says.

When labor came to power, they managed to make an agreement with the British Medical Association and gave them promises to improve in extra money and working conditions.

The doctors saw the payment as a sign that the journey to restore the payment to the 2008 levels were visible, but this still required a 25% walk on the previous rise.

When he asked why the walks were returned, Dr. Sharma says, “He hasn’t delivered since last year.”

Dr Sharma, who participated in other stunning doctors outside a East London Hospital in Streeting’s election zone, says that the years as a new name of young doctors are difficult to years – more difficult than it should be.

In his early years, he faced regular rotations in different jobs in West Midlands. “You can be sent anywhere in large geographical areas. You have little control over your routes, people with missing weddings and important family activities.”

In September, he sits a test that will bring him back more than £ 1,000. “This is just for an exam. Throughout our education, it can cost us tens of thousands of pounds.”

The position of BMA continues to be the best way to solve this dispute. However, the government’s decisive payment for this year cannot be revised (resident doctors gained an average of 5.4% in 2025-26).

A series of issues were discussed in the five -day talks that broke down on Tuesday last week, including exam fees, career progress and the frequency of business rotations that could take place every four months.

Although the BMA refused to meet this, the government wanted to add student loans (medical students borrow £ 100,000).

As the clock passed, the disagreement became brutal when the BMA announced that the first strike under the worker would continue.

Streeting accused BMA of being reckless and showing “fully contempt” for patients. The union responds to any of the promises given by saying that they have lost their confidence.

On Monday, NHS criticized BMA’s “hard” approach to allow doctors to return to work to cope with emergencies.

The union responded by accusing NHS of extending senior doctors who cover striking doctors very thinly, accusing them of risking patients.

Sometimes, the return to the negotiation table seemed almost impossible, but when the strike was over, both sides showed signs of softening.

The senior sources in BMA mentioned that not wanting to enter a strike cycle, as in the last months of the Torah government – there were 11 strikes in the 16 -month area. They specify creating “breathing” for more negotiation in the coming days and weeks.

In addition, it was not noticed in the BMA, where the public was seen to be swinging against settled doctors.

In the meantime, those who are close to the street stress that they want to make an agreement, even though the union disappointed that the union could not postpone this strike to continue negotiations.

And in a statement that corresponds to the end of the strike, the health secretary said: “My door is open to continue our talks last week.”

However, if they wander around the table, is there a common ground for the reaction of an agreement considering that the BMA wants more wage increase and the government is determined?

“It won’t be easy,” says NHS Labor Specialist of NHFELD Trust Think-tank. Billy Palmer. “This separatist situation damages doctors and wider NHS.”

Payment, retention and prosperity says that “real problems”, but he believes that a number of individual changes can be united to have a potentially significant impact.

In addition to meeting the cost of pocket expenses such as exam fees and making the route and rotation system less ruthless, there are other suggestions.

These include student loan repayment holidays, so that doctors can delay them until they start to earn more, pay -free, pay.

He also talks about the need for resident doctors to struggle with private work shortage after the first two years of education. The figures from the BMA show had more than 30,000 doctors chasing 10,000 posts this year.

In addition, it warns that the government may still have to address a particular payment issue, which points to abnormality, which means that the first year, which means that doctors have earned less than the doctor’s assistants.

Is it enough to solve this? Probably, he says, but there is no guarantee, just as in everything in the long -standing dispute.