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

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

Yes, Labour have Failed.

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

Which could cause Deaths

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


The Strike is now on,
due to end next Tuesday

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

One Striking Doctor
said she wants £23 an hour?

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

read the room you dopey eejits

you are getting enough

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.

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

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.