Health Secretary invites junior doctors in for pay talks in last-ditch bid to avert next week's 72 hour- strike
Junior doctors have been invited for pay talks as the Government makes a last ditch bid to avoid next week's 72-hour strike. Health Secretary said he had proposed negotiations 'on the same basis other health unions accepted', after planned industrial action by tens of thousands of key workers was suspended when the Government agreed to discuss pay for this year.
But, the BMA junior doctors faction noted the Health Secretary did not attend talks on Friday. Responding to Mr Barclay's tweet, the @BMA_JuniorDocs Twitter account posted: "Just a reminder that we had a meeting today which @SteveBarclay failed to attend… Nearly 40,000 junior doctors voted to take industrial action in the BMA ballot. Dr Rob Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chairmen of the BMA's junior doctors committee, told The Times that doctors were willing to keep striking until they got 'full pay restoration' — a 35% rise – and future strikes could last longer than 72 hours.
In a joint letter to the Daily Telegraph on Saturday, they said there had been 'encouraging signs of engagement from the Government and unions to resolve differences and avert further industrial action in the NHS' but 'unfortunately, we are not seeing a similar dialogue with doctors'.
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