Posted on 07/09/2025 6:50:28 AM PDT by Salman
Wes Streeting has accused junior doctors of putting the recovery of the NHS at risk after five days of strikes were announced for the end of this month.
British Medical Association doctors below consultant level will strike from 7am on July 25 to 7am on July 30, forcing NHS hospitals to cancel thousands of appointments and operations.
Streeting, the health secretary, who warned on Tuesday that the public “would not forgive them” for staging more disruptive walkouts, urged the BMA to work with the government.
He said: “I wrote to the BMA this morning to offer to meet their committee and work with them to improve the working lives of resident doctors. Instead of talking, they’ve announced strikes.
“No trade union in British history has seen its members receive a 28.9 per cent pay rise [in the past three years] only to immediately respond with strikes, and the majority of BMA resident doctors didn’t vote to strike.
“This is completely unreasonable. The NHS recovery is hanging by a thread, and the BMA are threatening to pull it. The BMA should abandon their rush to strike and work with us to improve resident doctors’ working lives instead.”
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These doctors have surrendered their right to be called “professionals”.
State run medicine exists by undercutting wages and services. I’d like to know what they’re paid before I decide whether or not these doctors are ruthless.
The government says: “We expect the average full-time basic pay of a resident doctor will reach about £54,300 in 2025-26.”
https://fullfact.org/health/resident-doctors-pay-how-much-do-they-earn-and-what-does-the-bma-want/
Socialism always steals from someone. Always. The only rights as professionals physicians in the UK have are those rights the NHS allows them to have.
That’s not much considering the high cost of living.
The NHS is the UK’s largest employer, public or private sector.
And it’s harder than heck to get info on just how many of those employees see how many patients.
Socialized medicine isn’t about protecting public health.
It’s about padding public payrolls.
Patients are just the grist for the State’s medical mills.
It's about a functioning hospital with no patients.
Why do I think the NHS has a similar problem...
At least some of them make little money by working in the private sector.
Holy Smokes.
With the state Britain is in this will be the nail in their coffin.
You can only have ‘’free stuff’’ for so long until you run out of someone eles’s money to pay for it.
The Brits have spent billions of pounds on illegal immigrants(’’the boats’’) at the expense of their own people.
You have to go to You Tube to see this.
It’s shocking and sad to see.
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