🔴 More than 200,000 planned operations and outpatient appointments are likely to be cancelled if the junior doctors vote to strike
“Should junior doctors vote for industrial action, trust leaders will do everything they can to minimise disruption and prioritise the safe delivery of care and services for patients. Trust leaders are very concerned about the possibility of prolonged or co-ordinated strike action by health unions in the coming months. They also understand
Junior doctors are seeking pay restoration following more than a decade of real terms pay cuts, which has seen wages fall by more than 26 per cent since 2008. The BMA has repeatedly called on the Government to reverse the pay cuts,and alleviate the staffing crisis which it says is preventing the NHS from tackling record waiting lists and giving patients the care they need.
Junior doctors embarked on a four-year dispute with a previous Conservative government, which finally came to an end in 2019 In 2016, junior doctors walked out of routine care on two occasions at the start of their bitter four-year battle with the then health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the previous Conservative government, before adding emergency care to industrial action as the row continued. More than 125,000 operations and appointments were cancelled in the first full walk-out in the history of the health service, which lasted two days.which gave them an 8.2 per cent pay rise over four years.
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