In fact the health secretary offered to talk to them about junior doctors pay but, not about their claim of 26% pay restoration. Strikes since last December by various NHS staff groups including nurses and ambulance staff have already forced the NHS in England to postpone 651,000 operations and appointments. It is possible to have all of the [four] branches of [medical] practice in dispute actually at the point at which there is a general election, Banfield said. NHS doctors' strike is 'inevitable,' says new BMA chair Specialists and family doctors have their own grievances, which could lead them to join junior doctors and hospital consultants in staging stoppages, he added. Thousands of junior doctors staged a three-day strike on 13-15 March, which led to 175,000 outpatient appointments and operations being rescheduled. Consultants have seen an even deeper pay erosion than junior doctors, with their pay declining by 35% in the last 15 years. Strike is expected to lead to 350,000 appointments including operations being cancelled. Im in constant pain and am restricted with my movement. Sorry we couldn't set a reminder for you this time. But a spokesperson said: Cutting waiting lists is one of the governments top priorities and we are investing record sums in the NHS to improve services and ensure the NHS continues to be there for all of us for another 75 years. The article was amended on 20 July 2022 to remove a portion of the statement from a government spokesperson that was not directly relevant to the issue of junior doctors pay and therefore had the potential to mislead. The strike "will have an enormous impact on routine care for patients and on . Its expensive but at least now Id know.. The main doctors union called the strike after talks with Steve Barclay, the health secretary, broke down without achieving any progress. What is unthinkable is for government to continue cutting the pay of doctors and expecting the NHS to recover from its current prone state.. We will be trying to avoid that. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Of course we will., A government spokesperson said: The government wants a fair pay deal for nurses, doctors and the taxpayer, and is carefully considering the recommendations from the independent pay review bodies.. In contrast with their junior colleagues they will continue to work in life-or-death settings, such as A&E, maternity care and intensive care. Archie Bland and Nimo Omer take you through the top stories and what they mean, free every weekday morning, He said: People should attend appointments unless told otherwise by the NHS, continue to call 999 in a life-threatening emergency and use NHS 111 online services for non-urgent health needs.. But Downing Street says it is critical unions agree to call off planned industrial action before talks can begin, as the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) did on Tuesday. They feel that theyve been driven to it, he said. The British Medical Association blamed ministers for the strike and said they had not put forward any credible offer in response to its claim of a 35% pay rise for trainee doctors in England. I end up wearing my food the majority of the time because of hand spasms. Here's everything you need to know about the strike and how NHS care could be affected. An earlier version said that Steve Barclay asked the BMA and HCSA to call off the strike action, but refused to commit to start pay negotiations in return. The public is already witnessing an NHS thats disintegrating in places. He said ministers had seen fit to ignore the overwhelming support among junior doctors for this dispute driven by year after year of real-terms pay cuts. If consultants withdraw their labour, as junior doctors are doing again this week, that would be unthinkable without considerable derogations, said the chief executive of NHS Providers. He has become weaker in recent months, and is now struggling to walk more than a few metres and has been off school in recent weeks. 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NHS bosses fear next weeks four-day stoppage, which starts at 7am on Tuesday 11 April, will force them to reschedule as many as 250,000 appointments. In contrast, the basic hourly pay of junior doctor can be as low as 14.09 in the first year of work-based training. World. GPs are so angry that a disastrous new contract has been imposed on them that they are considering staging an indicative ballot to see how many would support strike action. The NHS will be looking into the abyss if hospital consultants follow the example of junior doctors and go on strike over pay, the leader of Englands hospital bosses has said. One hospital chief executive said: What worries me most is that therell be fewer medical rounds on the wards than usual and that one or two consultants will have a lot of beds to look after, and may also have to keep an eye on people in A&E, and so may not be able to see every patient every day the way we expect these days. The plan had aimed to train much larger numbers of health professionals to tackle the massive staff shortage facing the service, which has 124,000 vacancies. He is trying to think about something else and not to worry about it. Consultants and specialist doctors and GPs are also unhappy with their pay erosion. It will follow a five-day strike by junior doctors - the combination is likely . Fri 15 Jul 2022 01.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 20 Jul 2022 05.18 EDT A doctors' strike is "inevitable" and will expose how dangerously threadbare the Conservatives have left the health service,. Junior doctors are more prepared to take industrial action over pay now than when they staged a series of walkouts in 2015-16 in protest at a new contract imposed by then health secretary Jeremy Hunt, he said. We are working very hard to ensure those emergency services are kept safe, that is our priority, but Ive also got no doubt that that cover is very fragile, so we are relying on consultants and other staff to cover the work that junior doctors usually do. This time, she says she was told by the hospital that the surgery would be moved to May. Doctors' strike continues as court adjourns case till Sept 15 The NHS will prioritise resources to protect emergency treatment, critical care, neonatal care and trauma. The walkout by 61,000 junior doctors will have a bigger impact than any of the strikes held since December by nurses, ambulance staff and physiotherapists, NHS England said. What has the government said about the latest strikes? In Northern Ireland, the BMA said in May it would survey its members on pay and conditions and ask what members would be willing to do to drive change. But do I think the strike is to any degree irresponsible? Junior doctors have announced a new set of strikes over the continuing dispute over new contracts proposed by the government. The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, said: The junior doctors strike this week will cause huge disruption to patient care. That is unreasonable., They added: Our door remains open to constructive conversations, as we have had with other health unions, to find a realistic way forward which balances rewarding junior doctors for their hard work while being fair to the taxpayer.. "This means we will call a minimum of three days of action every month for the duration of our mandate for industrial action," said Dr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chairs of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee. Doctors will mount picket lines outside hospitals from 7am until Saturday morning in a deteriorating dispute over pay. We met with NHS England four times per day during the strikes and not a single request was made over the course of three days of action. They have demanded a 35% pay rise to reverse this. Last Monday, Anne, a designer in her late 40s, went to a clinic in London to have a lump in her breast checked. Read more:'Enormous' disruption feared as doctors in England plan multiple-day strikeNHS backlog plan 'is working', health secretary insists - after missing target to end 18-month waits. The health secretary recently held three weeks of talks with the JDC in an attempt to find a resolution to the dispute. The trio of cardiac experts are senior doctors at the Royal Brompton and Harefield specialist heart and lung hospitals in London. I do want to see the government pay them more.. All rights reserved. The union responded that Barclay had not attended pay talks on Friday. We have a clear set of plans in place, he said. Hartley, who said he understood why junior doctors wanted better pay, also said patients were being left upset, in pain, discomfort and anguish when their hip or knee replacement was rescheduled because junior doctors were on strike. NHS managers have said patient care is on a knife-edge and very fragile because of the stoppage by members of the British Medical Association (BMA). Tue 27 Jun 2023 13.02 EDT Senior doctors have voted in overwhelming numbers to go on strike over pay for the first time in nearly 50 years, in an attempt to put pressure on ministers to reverse. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is separately balloting its 300,000 members in England as to their willingness to renew their campaign of industrial action, which began before Christmas. Public sector workers attend a rally at Trafalgar Square in London on 15 March. The health secretary, Steve Barclay, called the strikes extremely disappointing and said the BMAs demand for a 35% pay rise was unreasonable as it would result in some junior doctors receiving a pay rise of more than 20,000. We cannot, in all conscience, stand by and just let this happen without advocating for our current and future patients, said Grocott-Mason, referring to his teams cardiovascular patients. These patients are sat waiting for an unpredictable and potentially fatal cardiac event to happen.. Im not sleeping properly, Im really anxious its horrible.. Hartley said: No one should underestimate how challenging the two-day strike proposed by senior doctors in July could be for the NHS. Junior doctors in England to strike for five days from 13 July In only the second such action in the 74-year-history of the NHS, junior doctors will strike for 72 hours continuously after 98% of those who voted favoured strike action. All rights reserved. Junior doctors have intensified their pay dispute with the government by calling a four-day strike that NHS bosses fear will force them to cancel up to 250,000 appointments. How in all conscience, can the health secretary continue to put his head in the sand and hope that by not meeting with us, this crisis of his governments making, will somehow just disappear?. Consultants will hold their first walkout on 20-21 July. Heart patients across the country will face the same risks, as most heart units are taking the same type of action and postponing operations listed for next week. On Friday night Steve Barclay said he has written to junior doctors in the BMA inviting them to enter into pay talks after negotiations with other health unions. Sorry we couldn't set a reminder for you this time. He has made clear that he will resume talks with the BMA but only if they call off their campaign of strikes and drop their 35% claim. NHS Providers boss warns of health service 'looking into abyss' if Banfield said: Doctors are angry, frustrated and feeling undervalued. Im kicking myself for not getting the biopsy done privately. Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, the BMA junior doctors committee co-chairs, said: It is appalling that this government feels that paying three junior doctors as little as 66.55 between them for work of this value is justified. But it will happen. But its the same bring it on [mindset] that says if you really want to know how bad the health service that you preside over, fund and control [is], then we will tell the public how bad it is and what a desperate state its in. It is no exaggeration to say that delaying surgery for this group [P2s] will result in harm. The BMA has threatened a summer of strikes if the government does not improve its offer. Archie Bland and Nimo Omer take you through the top stories and what they mean, free every weekday morning. 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However, despite progress on some issues, they collapsed when Barclay only offered junior doctors a 5% pay rise. Junior doctors paid lower hourly rate than workers to get at Pret "We made a fair and reasonable opening offer to the BMA and were in active discussions about both pay and non-pay issues. Hospitals will be left unable to function normally if consultants the most senior doctors on wards stage walkouts in pursuit of their pay claim, Sir Julian Hartley said. We have written many times and even as late as yesterday we were hopeful Steve Barclay would recognise the need to meet with us to find a workable solution that could have averted this strike.. Last week, she received a phone call from the hospital in London confirming that the surgery to replace his heart valves, which had been due to be held on Thursday, would be postponed by two weeks. People are lying on a trolley for three days in an emergency department. Patients are crying out for leadership but instead they are getting weakness.. We hugely value the work of all NHS staff and it is disappointing BMA consultants and junior doctors are taking strike action. As many as 61,000 junior or trainee doctors will stage a 72-hour stoppage from 7am on Monday in pursuit of a 26% pay rise. (modern). He also dismissed suggestions the industrial action could add to already-long NHS waiting lists. Its very stressful for the whole family. They remain at loggerheads with the health secretary, Steve Barclay. Anne was told to go home and wait for a call. In April, a similar walkout by junior doctors saw 196,000 hospital appointments and pre-planned operations rescheduled. I would urge the junior doctors to follow suit, and accept the governments offer to come in and have talks, Sunak said. The union said junior doctors have suffered a "pay erosion" of 26% over the last 15 years as their wages have failed to keep up with inflation. The British Medical Association (BMA) and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) are pressing ahead with their coordinated action after the health secretary, Steve Barclay, asked them to call it off but only committed to discussing a potential one-off payment for 2022/23, and an unspecified payrise for 2023/24. A DHSC spokesperson said: The health and social care secretary met the BMAs junior doctors committee yesterday in the hope of beginning constructive talks to resolve the current dispute. There is a growing acrimony surrounding the dispute, with both sides accusing the other of being unreasonable. Junior doctors paid lower hourly rate than workers to get at Pret, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. First published on Thu 23 Mar 2023 08.02 EDT Junior doctors have intensified their pay dispute with the government by calling a four-day strike that NHS bosses fear will force them to cancel up. The Mirror's newly minted stablemate, The New Day, reveals its sympathies with a front page, "Half of junior doctors say: 'we will leave the NHS'", and an inside spread with two columns . She says the pain is getting worse. The action is expected to see some of the most severe strike disruption of NHS services to date and have a huge impact on the drive to reduce waiting lists for elective care, it said. He attacked the BMA for advising consultants to charge NHS trusts eye-wateringly high rates of up to 262 an hour to cover for junior doctors during their strike. After 14 years are doctors worth 30% less? We will send you a maximum of two emails in, We will be in touch to remind you to contribute. England, who works at a day service for autistic people in Blackpool, has suffered from chronic pain after she broke her elbow more than a decade ago, and has had several operations on it. Hospital bosses are deeply concerned that patients could come to harm because consultants senior doctors are unable to provide the same level of medical supervision as when hospitals are fully-staffed, despite working longer hours to try to cover the workloads of juniors, who carry out much day-to-day patient management. Exclusive: union says it is planning for scenario of specialist and family doctors walking out as well as juniors and consultants. Because there is no sellout to be had here, added Banfield, in comments which underline why some fellow BMA council members privately call him the BMAs Mick Lynch a reference to the RMT rail unions plain-speaking general secretary. Last months first three-day strike by junior doctors in England over their demand for a 35% pay rise led to 175,000 outpatient appointments and operations being cancelled. The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper brings you the latest headlines, opinions, political news, business reports and international news. Junior doctors who are members of the BMA walked out for 96 hours from 11-15 April and for 72 hours from 13-15 March. All rights reserved. Bahamas Doctors Union (BDU) President Dr. Melisande Bassett said roughly 420 doctors withdrew their services. In a column in the Sunday Telegraph, however, Barclay insisted that such demands were simply unaffordable and would cost the taxpayer an extra 2bn, threatening the governments efforts to cut inflation. Why wont our government do anything?, Being given scraps of info and then left hanging seems incredibly cruel, she says. Those talks broke down, however, and the RCN narrowly rejected a pay deal that many other unions accepted and then began seeking a second legal strike mandate. For others, it may mean premature death, Grocott-Mason said. People are dying waiting for attention. Speaking on a plane to San Diego on Sunday night, the prime minister pointed to the constructive dialogue with other union leaders that had led to an offer for rail workers being proposed and progress being made in the dispute with nurses. Junior doctors are in the final hours of their third significant strike since March, which have lasted for 72, 96 and 72 hours respectively. Rishi Sunak said it was very disappointing the union was not engaging with the government. Three doctors with 10, seven and one years experience are pictured in an operating theatre where an appendix is being removed, one of thousands of similar operations that takes place every day in England. It will be the fourth strike they have held since March as part of their campaign for a 35% increase in their salaries.
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