Junior doctors in England launch fifth round of industrial action
Junior doctors in England launch fifth round of industrial action
Strike could push number of appointments cancelled due to industrial action over million mark
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Junior doctors in England have launched a fifth round of industrial action, with thousands going on strike just days after starting their first NHS jobs.
The strike action comes less than 24 hours after figures revealed the waiting list of people awaiting treatment had climbed to a record high of 7.6 million.
Sir Julian Hartley, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said cancellations could hit a million after strikes by junior doctors and consultants in August.
The NHS Confederation has called the government’s “business as usual” approach to strike action “dangerous” and urged it to reopen talks with doctors.
Steve Barclay, the health secretary, said patients were “bearing the brunt of the impact of continuous strikes” and the fresh round “will cause more appointments and procedures to be postponed”.
He added: “My door is always open to discuss how to improve doctors’ working lives, but this pay award is final so I urge the BMA to end its strikes immediately.”
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3How can the NHS be so incredibly underfunded? Hell, even Canada is bleeding doctors because of long hours and low pay, and our salaries look downright exceptional compared to this.
1Today I learned that your junior doctors make less than some fast food workers do in the United States. That's appalling. And my understanding is that post-clinical, they're still not paid particularly well?
This chart is just appalling. Expecting 58+ hour work weeks for decent pay? Really? That's just asking for mistakes to be made.
https://www.bmj.com/careers/article/the-complete-guide-to-nhs-pay-for-doctors
1Not sure why they continue to strike. Just get a new and better job already!
-16Yes. We should absolutely be pushing for the doctors of the future to walk out en masse and take their skills elsewhere. What could go wrong.
13"Junior doctors" are fully qualified doctors in clinical training, no "of the future" about it.
8No I don't think we should be pushing for this. But the doctor's themselves absolutely should.
They've clearly said the renumeration and stress levels in th NHS system are unacceptable. Hence the strikes. Many have signaled that they would rather work in non NHS style health systems because of the pay and quality of life improvements. Good for them.
As hard as it might be to hear this maybe it's time to rethink how well the NHS system is working. Not for patients (but also that) but for the workers within in. A key tranche of which are so pissed off with it that they want to move to Australia.
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