After criticizing the resident doctors in England, voting is being done for further strike action GovernmentLatest salary proposal.
The ballots started arrival on Tuesday, after the government’s announcement, the highest for 4 percent increment last week DoctorsAlong with resident doctors, was known as in the east Junior Doctor, Get an additional £ 750.
The ballot will close on July 7 and if the doctors vote for action, a mandate will run between July and January next year.
British Medical Association (BMA), the union representing doctors argues that this increase is inadequate to address the impact of previous salary freeze.
Urked the members to vote for the strike action, BMA’s Junior Doctor Committee cum-Chairman emphasized that negotiations with the government were a possibility.
Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr. Ross Neuvoud said: “Last week, the government finally told us what will it do to restore the salary of doctors: Almost nothing.
“Doctors have seen a decline of 23 percent in their salary in real terms since 2008. Today any doctor is priced at less than this, but when the government is being offered, we will once again be before reaching that level of salary before a decade.
“As the ballots fall through the doctors’ letterbox once again, we are just saying: NHS It is not at that time. The waiting list is very high, many people cannot see their GP, many patients are being treated in the corridors.
“Doctors not in the country and their career in 10 or 20 years, but now, but now.”
He continued: “We are urging doctors to vote yes to take action. By voting, they will tell the government that there is no option to fix the salary – it cannot wait for various fiscal conditions and a healthy NHS. The answer is to fix it today.
“While doctors continue to return these ballots, our door is always open.
,Wes streeting He has made it clear that he knows the value of dialogue on partition. Instead of repeating the mistakes of his predecessors, he can now come to us with a solution. Even if doctors have voted for industrial action, not a single picket line is required with the right approach. ,
The recommended increase by an independent pay review body is above the rate of inflation, which increased by 3.5 percent in April, 2.6 percent in March and above the highest since January 2024.
But Professor Philip Banfield, the Chairman of the Council of BMA, warned immediately after the government’s announcement that the Sangh was already considering the strike proceedings, assuming that the salary hike is not enough to restore doctors’ salary after the previous salary.
He said, “The salary of doctors is still less than a quarter in real terms 16 years ago and the restoration of delay in today’s ‘award’ is even more, without a government plan or assurance to fix this erosion of a doctor,” he said.
Mr. Streeting said: “I understand the anxiety and anger that the resident doctors have felt and continue to feel about their part of the profession – in 14 years, he saw NHS that he was working in the slide.
“Therefore, within the weeks of coming to the office, I was firm to resolve the salary dispute and give adequate salary to resident doctors. Now another above-so-so-so-average pay prize is being done after 5.4 percent (which includes top ups).
“The result is that resident doctors have seen an increase of 28.9 percent in their salary compared to three years ago. The average early salary of a full-time doctor is now about 38,800 pounds-2022-23 since around £ 9,500.
“I want to work in partnership with resident doctors that he is offering changes that are crying for NHS. Simultaneously, we have made a lot of progress – in the last ten months, through our plan for change, we have worked with employees to cut a waiting list of over 200,000 and put NHS on the road to recover – let’s not stop now.”
In an interview with the BBC, the Health Secretary called junior doctors to “do not vote” and “work with the government”, the warning strike may put efforts to rebuild NHS at risk.
“I don’t think the strikes are in their interests, in the interests of patients, and I definitely don’t think it is in the interest of NHS,” he said.
Resident doctor is a new word for a junior doctor and refers to GP practices and more than 50,000 qualified doctors working in hospitals, from graduates to medics with a decade experience.
Doctor members of BMA have taken industrial action 11 times since 2022.
NHS England estimates that Walkouts canceled or re -determined about 1.5 million appointments.