The British Medical Association (BMA) said it stands ready to talk and the union has already had some discussions with the Labour Party.
The NHS have warned of 'major disruption' to services as junior doctors are set to walk out on strike for five days, in the 11th strike since March last year
The BMA’s junior doctors committee said Mr Streeting’s remark that raising pay would be a “journey and not an event” align with their pay restoration goals. Senior BMA members have conceded the union had not pushed enough over the last 15 years, saying they had pinned their hopes on the independent pay review body, which sets the pay of doctors.
Junior doctors have said they will call off the strike if Prime Minister Rishi Sunak makes a credible commitment to restore their pay. Asked about talks with Mr Streeting, committee co-chair Dr Robert Laurenson said: “He is talking about things like ‘journey, not an event’ – we’re happy to have a multi-year pay deal.
“You’ve seen industrial action now go on for well over a year. It’s incredibly disappointing that this has gone this far.” Siva Anandaciva, chief analyst at The King’s Fund think tank, said: “An immediate challenge facing the next government will be resolving industrial action in the NHS which has lasted for well over a year now. It is difficult to comprehend how either the Conservative Party or the Labour Party can deliver on their manifesto commitment to recover NHS performance over the next parliament without first ending the dispute.
Indeed in 2022, Germany spent 55% more on health per head of population than the UK and France spent 26% more, according the Health Foundation’s analysis of OECD data.
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