About 350,000 appointments will be cancelled as junior doctors’ strike is set to bring disruption to the NHS
Junior doctors have had “absolutely nothing” from the health secretary regarding pay negotiations, the deputy chairwoman of the BMA Council has said. Dr Emma Runswick told BBC Breakfast:
We’re not the side with the power here to start negotiations – we’ve been asking for literally months.
At any point, Steve Barclay could have entered negotiations with us.
We are … working very hard to ensure those emergency services are kept safe, that is our priority, but I’ve 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.
Junior doctors are a significant part of our medical workforce – up to 40 to 50% of our medical staff – and so that cover is stretched thin in places, so it could be affected by sickness, by absence for other reasons.
Continue reading…About 350,000 appointments will be cancelled as junior doctors’ strike is set to bring disruption to the NHSJunior doctors have had “absolutely nothing” from the health secretary regarding pay negotiations, the deputy chairwoman of the BMA Council has said. Dr Emma Runswick told BBC Breakfast:We’re not the side with the power here to start negotiations – we’ve been asking for literally months.At any point, Steve Barclay could have entered negotiations with us.We are … working very hard to ensure those emergency services are kept safe, that is our priority, but I’ve 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.Junior doctors are a significant part of our medical workforce – up to 40 to 50% of our medical staff – and so that cover is stretched thin in places, so it could be affected by sickness, by absence for other reasons. Continue reading…