Jr Doctors to Strike :Thousands of resident doctors in England Under Labour

[arista]

Sort this out PM Starmer.....


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/02/resident-doctors-in-england-to-be-balloted-on-strike-action-over-pay



[Junior doctors in England will ballot for
strike action over 'ignored' demands for pay,
the British Medical Association has announced.
The union said three weeks had passed
since it warned the Government of
the 'consequences of the absence of a reasonable,
timely pay offer'.

The ballot will open on May 27 and closes on July 7.]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14672077/Junior-doctors-strike-Government-demands-pay.html

[Livia]

Shame on them.

[user104658]

Thing is, there's this idea that it's some noble mission, and people say if someone doesn't like the pay they should have chosen another career... but the only alternative choice to healthcare staff asking for improved pay (if they don't want to work for peanuts) is indeed for them to not go into healthcare in the firstplace.

But we need healthcare staff. And the same people complaining about workers striking also complain (endlessly) if we import staffing from other countries.

You have to choose one. Make it an attractive career for people to get themselves the education and training to go into, or accept more and more staff via immigration. People just have this "I don't want us to do either of those things :)" mindset but no alternative solution.

[Livia]

Further to my previous comment... I don't know any profession where those in training are overpaid. Indeed, in some professions people work for nothing in order to gain experience. All the GPs at my local surgery work part time because they can afford to, so it's not like their training doesn't lead to lucrative careers.

[joeysteele]

Thing is, there's this idea that it's some noble mission, and people say if someone doesn't like the pay they should have chosen another career... but the only alternative choice to healthcare staff asking for improved pay (if they don't want to work for peanuts) is indeed for them to not go into healthcare in the firstplace.

But we need healthcare staff. And the same people complaining about workers striking also complain (endlessly) if we import staffing from other countries.

You have to choose one. Make it an attractive career for people to get themselves the education and training to go into, or accept more and more staff via immigration. People just have this "I don't want us to do either of those things :)" mindset but no alternative solution.

I agree with all you've said there.
I will still support the Junior Doctors and this government need to ensure they are retained.
They had enough to contend with from the last lot.

[user104658]

Further to my previous comment... I don't know any profession where those in training are overpaid. Indeed, in some professions people work for nothing in order to gain experience. All the GPs at my local surgery work part time because they can afford to, so it's not like their training doesn't lead to lucrative careers.

Junior doctors are not "doctors in training", it doesn't just refer to FY1&2, junior doctor refers to any doctor below consultant level. The only doctors NOT under the "junior doctor" umbrella are those who can go into independent practice i.e. consultants, GP's and a small number of non-consultant specialists.

Couple that with the fact that training entry requirements are sky high, which means people being accepted into medical training could go into basically any field they want ... so if other careers simply offer better salary with (most likely) less effort - medicine degrees are gruelling and from what I hear FY1 and 2 are worse, often 60hr weeks for what? Mid-30k salaries? It works out practically minimum wage :joker:.

Yes GPs and consultants can make good money but meh. Why would someone put themselves through that into their 40's when, if they're the sort of straight-A student they'd need to be to get into medicine, they could be making more by their late 20's in another field.

It's a mess just at that. BUT then consider, that a UK medical degree is accepted all over the world, and other countries pay more. A lot more. So what actually happens is, a lot of them simply (and understandably) fk off abroad.

Again the same people who don't like that we import professionals from abroad, don't seem concerned about us losing all of our own professionals to countries that'll pay them.

[joeysteele]

Junior doctors are not "doctors in training", it doesn't just refer to FY1&2, junior doctor refers to any doctor below consultant level. The only doctors NOT under the "junior doctor" umbrella are those who can go into independent practice i.e. consultants, GP's and a small number of non-consultant specialists.

Couple that with the fact that training entry requirements are sky high, which means people being accepted into medical training could go into basically any field they want ... so if other careers simply offer better salary with (most likely) less effort - medicine degrees are gruelling and from what I hear FY1 and 2 are worse, often 60hr weeks for what? Mid-30k salaries? It works out practically minimum wage :joker:.

Yes GPs and consultants can make good money but meh. Why would someone put themselves through that into their 40's when, if they're the sort of straight-A student they'd need to be to get into medicine, they could be making more by their late 20's in another field.

It's a mess just at that. BUT then consider, that a UK medical degree is accepted all over the world, and other countries pay more. A lot more. So what actually happens is, a lot of them simply (and understandably) fk off abroad.

Again the same people who don't like that we import professionals from abroad, don't seem concerned about us losing all of our own professionals to countries that'll pay them.

You are right.

I had 2 Cousins who were junior doctors after out of all training.
They sadly for their family but good for them went over to New Zealand and then Australia.
After the strikes during Jeremy Hunt's time as health secretary.
Never looked back and are valued far more than here in the UK.

As I understand it, it can be that the term junior doctor can apply to those still in some training but it also applies to junior doctors no longer so too.

I also think the BMA wants the term junior doctor changed to resident doctor.

[Beso]

We never had this before mass immigration.

[arista]

New Strike by Jr. Doctors
8/7/25


Announced today.

[arista]

From Politics Live BBC2HD

Stated that there is a 10,000 shortage of these young doctors
They go to other nations, earning double the money

[Livia]

I still say, shame on them.

[Crimson Dynamo]

run by student Marxists

[MTVN]

They've just had a 5.4% pay rise following a 22% pay rise before that and still striking...

[arista]

They've just had a 5.4% pay rise following a 22% pay rise before that and still striking...



Yes, they say the going rate is higher.


Ref: Politics Live today

[joeysteele]

Well, they're not actually striking yet.
They still seek talks with the government.

In my view, they warrant more, they should have more.
There'd be bigger outcries if more and more of them just said to blazes with the UK, then headed off to other Countries, where they are far better paid and have far better conditions too.
However where they also get due and genuine respect, not just like lip service here in the UK during extremely difficult health issues periods.

They always have had and still have my full support.

[arista]

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[arista]

There Strike is
Friday 25 July - 30th of July

[Zizu]

As if things aren’t bad enough !!

This morning I rang our local doctors to request some sleeping tablets ..

The best they could offer me was a phone call from a random doctor in ten days time … a week on Sunday sometime between 8am and 1pm

A well , sleep is probably overrated


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[arista]

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[arista]

Health Secretary Live in parliament
saying the strike is unnecessary


SkyNewsHD

[arista]

Sadly looks like the Strike
Friday 25 July - 30th of July
will go ahead.

A Young Doctor,
was Live on Ch5HD AM yesterday,
His union stopped him talking,
to any public phone calls, sadly.

So it was Carole Malone shouting at him.


Reports that some will die
when they go on strike
Friday 25 July 2025

[arista]

Wes offers to write off Student loans


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[arista]

Strike to go ahead on Friday

[arista]

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[arista]

The 5-day Strike starts tomorrow
Live Debate on LBC now

[MTVN]

Amazing they are still going through with it

I don't know about anyone else but I haven't spoken to a single person who agrees with these strikes yet. Even amongst those who are generally very pro-unionist and supported previous action. Does anyone here still think these strikes are justified rather than some pretty outrageous politicking which plays with the lives of patients? Worst thing for me is how the BMA completely manipulate statistics to support their argument in a way that makes any discussion about pay impossible because it has no resemblance to other professions and the normal way of calculating pay

[bots]

I wonder how they will feel after the NHS reforms go through. I bet they look back at this time and think they never had it so good

[arista]

Amazing they are still going through with it

I don't know about anyone else but I haven't spoken to a single person who agrees with these strikes yet. Even amongst those who are generally very pro-unionist and supported previous action. Does anyone here still think these strikes are justified rather than some pretty outrageous politicking which plays with the lives of patients? Worst thing for me is how the BMA completely manipulate statistics to support their argument in a way that makes any discussion about pay impossible because it has no resemblance to other professions and the normal way of calculating pay


Yes, Labour have Failed.

Tomorrow, the 7AM Strike of these Doctors
will leave many with an appointment stopped

Which could cause Deaths

[arista]

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[arista]

BBC News Text:
[The strikes pose a "threat to the NHS as we know it",
according to an editorial by
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the Times.
In his appeal to doctors to "snub" the walkout,
Starmer says the industrial action will
"play into the hands" of those that "do not want our
NHS to succeed in its current form".]


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[arista]

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[arista]

Radio 5
Just said they are getting £20 an hour?


The Strike is now on,
due to end next Tuesday

[Vanessa]

They've just had a 5.4% pay rise following a 22% pay rise before that and still striking...

That's crazy. I think they've had enough. How much more money do they want? :conf:

[arista]

One Striking Doctor
said she wants £23 an hour?

[Liam-]

They want their pay restored back to the 2008 number, when the vast majority of them probably weren’t even thinking about being doctors yet, you can’t sign up to do a job at a certain salary, and then demand that you get paid the salary of more than a decade prior their existence in the job, it’s ludicrous, especially considering they’ve just been given a near 30% pay rise last year, I think they might have misjudged this one and the public’s reaction to it

[Crimson Dynamo]

read the room you dopey eejits

you are getting enough

[MTVN]

Thing is they accepted that pay every year since 2008 as well and now want to undo all of that. That was also obviously just before the financial crash, austerity, Brexit, Covid, Ukraine, cost of living crisis, inflation and even now the global economy is pretty screwed. So many professions have lost out since 2008 but doctors have done better than most in the public sector.

[bots]

what i particularly don't like about this is that it reduces the publics trust in NHS doctors. The effects of that could last a decade or longer. Doctors are not meant to be seen as confrontational, it goes directly against their remit when they signed up for that job

[Livia]

I think it's not just striking doctors that have caused people to lose faith in the NHS. Has anyone here been on an elderly care ward lately? I seriously would take my own life before having to endure that. NHS Fife... What a joke. Billions and billions of pounds poured in year after year but still ambulances are taken off the road because they're standing outside casualty for hours before they can unload patients. It's become huge Behemoth of mismanagement where managers with no medical training call all the shots. Foreigners using its services for free. Embarrassing how such a once wonderful institution has fallen. Striking doctors is just the latest embarrassing episode in a long, long line of embarrassing episodes brought to you by the NHS.

[arista]

Another new Strike starts at 7AM today,
until next Wednesday 19th of Nov.

It appears the Public are to go into,
appointments?
Then find out the Doctor in charge will not see them
as they are on strike?

No Phone them,
I would think it is better

[arista]

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[Zizu]

It’s hardly gonna make much difference given it’s damn near impossible to see a bladdy doctor these days

[arista]

It’s hardly gonna make much difference given it’s damn near impossible to see a bladdy doctor these days


Yes,
that is true.

But many are on Urgent Hospital Appointments
that will be cancelled today.