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NHS must resist doctors' strike, its chief tells hospital leaders (UK)
NHS must resist doctors’ strike, its chief tells hospital leadershttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/wes-streeting-doctors-strike-bma-7slcwknpq
Doctors must face significant “financial consequences” from going on strike, the head of the NHS warned as the government aimed to destroy their ability to mount a protracted wave of industrial action.
Sir Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS England, told hospital leaders to press on with routine operations after hopes of a deal collapsed in acrimony. He said that the NHS would take a “different approach” and be “much more resistant” to the demands of doctors than it has been in the past.
At 7am on Friday resident doctors — who were previously known as junior doctors — will begin five days of industrial action in a move that NHS leaders have warned will put patients at significant risk.
Doctors insist a pay rise is needed to stop staff deserting the NHS and say they are ready for years of strikes if ministers do not compromise.
During a call with hospital leaders on Wednesday morning Mackey accused the British Medical Association’s leadership of acting in “bad faith” during negotiations that had appeared close to a breakthrough on Tuesday.
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Sir Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS England, told hospital leaders to press on with routine operations after hopes of a deal collapsed in acrimony. He said that the NHS would take a “different approach” and be “much more resistant” to the demands of doctors than it has been in the past.
At 7am on Friday resident doctors — who were previously known as junior doctors — will begin five days of industrial action in a move that NHS leaders have warned will put patients at significant risk.
Doctors insist a pay rise is needed to stop staff deserting the NHS and say they are ready for years of strikes if ministers do not compromise.
During a call with hospital leaders on Wednesday morning Mackey accused the British Medical Association’s leadership of acting in “bad faith” during negotiations that had appeared close to a breakthrough on Tuesday.
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