UK Junior doctors on 4-day strike demanding higher pay
More than 40 percent of England’s medical workforce are classed as junior doctors, a term the NHS uses to cover qualified doctors who have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor, depending on their speciality, or up to three years in general practice.;
DoctorsLondon: An Indian-origin medic and co-chair of the medical association's junior doctors panel has called for action from the British government as members across England began a historic four-day strike on Tuesday demanding a substantial pay hike in line with the spiralling inflation.
Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Committee, has been at the forefront of calls for so-called “pay restoration” for an estimated 45,000 junior doctors employed across the state-funded National Health Service (NHS).
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They claim a 35 percent increase in their pay would compensate for 15 years of below-inflation wage increases.
UK Health Secretary Steve Barclay had written to the committee to say he was serious about “rapidly settling this dispute” but the government has indicated their pay demand is too high.
“We don’t want to go on strike, we don’t have to go on strike. We are willing to negotiate but we haven’t been offered anything so far,” said Trivedi.
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