Starting tomorrow and going on until Saturday, junior doctors will go on 'the most disruptive industrial action in NHS history'. As many as 250,000 operations and appointments could be cancelled or delayed.
Patients have been urged to continue to use 999 and A&E for life-threatening conditions but to use NHS 111 online, pharmacies and GPs for non-urgent issueslatest in a long-running dispute between public sector unions and the government across BritainJunior doctors are trying to secure a pay rise of around 35 percent, and the union has argued that since 2008-2009 medics have experienced a real-terms pay cut of more than 25 percent.
He said: ‘This is set to be the most disruptive industrial action in NHS history, and the strikes tomorrow will bring immense pressures, coming on the back of a challenged, extended bank holiday weekend for staff and services.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, health secretary Steve Barclay argued that the BMA’s pay demands were ‘widely out of step with pay settlements in other parts of the public sector’.
Barclay said: ‘Unfortunately, the decision by BMA junior doctors’ leaders to maintain an unrealistic position meant we were unable to make progress with talks.‘It seems they are intent on maintaining a militant stance rather than working with the government and NHS management to meet the best interests of their members and of patients.’
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