Striking junior doctors no longer have public support, says Wes Streeting

Doctors Now the public is not supported for the strike action, Wes streeting Warned, urged them to vote Walkout proposed this week.

Resident doctors in England, earlier known as junior doctors, are those Demand for 29 percent salary uplift on a large scale To eliminate the ongoing cycle of attacks, which are due to “very damage to patients and comprehensive healthcare systems”.

They have started Getting ballot for afresh industrial action Last week, ministers announced that most doctors would get 4 percent salary increase after the latest review of public sector salary, with resident doctors with additional £ 750 at the top of the uplift.

While the British Medical Association (BMA), the association representing doctors said that the salary hike does not far away in restoring the historic salary freeze, Mr. Streeting warned: “We cannot take the risk of returning to a constant cycle of stand-off, strike and cancellation.”

Members of the BMA, a resident of BMA, have taken industrial action 11 times since 2022, NHS England have estimated that Walkouts have canceled or re -determined about 1.5 million appointments.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Lucy North/PA)

Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Lucy North/PA) ,Packet,

Write Many timesMr. Streeting said: “The public supported the previous attacks against a government, which cuts the real conditions in the salary of the resident doctors. But patients have now been protested to take action.

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“After an increase in the important salary given in the last ten months, they can see that this government is committed to a proper deal for NHS employees. Neither do patients have to see green shoots of recovery of choke by strike action.”

His comments marked a rigorous change in the tone from the perspective of him last year, when he ended the strike of months by handing over 22 percent increment within a week of entering the office. This year, he was awarded another inflation-busting increment of 5.4 percent.

He has now appealed to the doctors to vote ‘no’ in the ballot and instead “continue the progress we have, working together for the reconstruction of our NHS.”

“Strike should always be a last solution, and I don’t think they are in someone’s interest today”, he warned.

This came after a new survey of 4,100 British adults by YouGov that 48 percent of the residents of Britain are going on strike protesting doctors, while 39 percent supported them to take action.

Yougov stated that it “marks a change in opinion” about the public support of striking junior doctors in the last summer, when most Britain – 52 percent – said they supported it.

This highlighted how the pro -labor pro -strike proceedings supported the proceedings, the conservatives expressed the strongest opposition.

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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.

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“As the ballots fall through the doctors’ letterbox once again, we are simply saying: NHS does not have that time. The waiting list is very high, many people cannot see their GP, a lot of patients are being treated in the corridors.

“Doctors not in the country and their career in 10 or 20 years, but now, but now.”

Resident doctors are being voted on the possibility of strike action (PA)

Resident doctors are being voted on the possibility of strike action (PA) ,PA Archive,

Earlier this week, Write Independent, Shri streeting NHS treated doctors “like rubbish”, Accepting that the salary was not the only thing in which the doctors were unhappy.

He said, “They are correctly angry about the way their employer behaved. So I am”, he said.

“NHS can be a bad employer at the moment, who gets bad for taxpayers and patients. We train hundreds of thousand pounds training people, only behave them like nonsense and to leave them completely to work in another healthcare or any other career.”

Talking to Sky News, Water Minister Emma Hardy applied to junior doctors to vote against the strike action and “urge the government to continue talking, as we need to continue improvement in our NHS that patients are in dire need.”

He said, “We give importance to all those who work in NHS, and we give immense importance to our doctors. So their salary has increased by 20 years compared to three years ago, and why we are offering an increase in salary increase of inflation above”, he said.

The increase recommended by the Independent Pay Review Body is above the rate of inflation, which increased by 3.5 percent in April, 2.6 percent in March and the highest since January 2024.

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But the council’s BMA Chairman Professor Philip Banfield warned that the salary of doctors is “still less than a quarter, which was 16 years ago in real terms”, saying that the salary prize “is even more, without a government plan or without assurance to correct this erosion, without assurance.”

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