I medici votano per procedere con lo sciopero di cinque giorni di questa settimana

These strikes will cost over 300 million. The last set of strikes cost 300 million. Thats 600 million. I guarantee if they offered the doctors a deal worth not even that much they would take it.

Shows paying them is not about “lack of money” it’s about ideology. Just like the Tories.

They can afford the triple lock, the huge Welfare bill with costs around 500 billion and the migrant hotels which cost around 5 billion but they “can’t afford” the 1 billion (spread over a few years).

The biggest problem in this country is that people who are clever and work hard are rewarded with taxes funding things they won’t benefit from, a poor economy and a public who have a crabs in a bucket mentality where they hate anyone who is doing better than them.

To anyone who is opposed to this think they are fighting a government that doesn’t give two shits about you. They are happy to spend billions buying votes with their policies (won’t even work) but they are not happy to pay people for their worth.

If you can’t make a decent living being a doctor, what hope do the rest of us have.

Also people saying if you don’t like it than just leaving, well they are to Australia and Canada so don’t complain when you can’t get a GP appointment.

I have sympathy with doctors being paid properly but I don’t think striking right before Christmas when there’s a super-flu wave peaking is going to endear them to the public

If your mum dies right before crimbo because the doctors are off striking, I think you’ll hold on to that.

Yes because union busting and name calling doctors was supposed to lead to them going back to work and never complaining ever again. That, historically, has always been known to settle worker complaints. Anyone who believes the government is ever actually running out of money is a chump. They can pull £95m out their arse to revamp my local town hall but CBA to pay doctors a living wage. Hope they enjoy their new offices. 

Good for them. 100% behind them.

Younger people in this country have been shafted for far too long while those around us take their fill. Time people are reminded we can’t be taken for granted.

It’s important to note that these strikes aren’t just about pay, but it’s convenient for the Government if people believe it is.

Resident doctors are often unable to progress in their career for years, with many going abroad or leaving medicine entirely. Resident doctors begin as an F1 and progress to an F2, after completing this two year foundation programme rotating across various departments, doctors will pick a speciality where (or train as a GP) where they’ll continue up until consultant level.

There are around 10,000 speciality training places and 30,000 doctors applying for them. We have qualified doctors who are willing to do the work and we need more specialist doctors. Streeting, just like his predecessors, is refusing to fund increased training places. Obviously this would be expensive, but not doing it is just kicking the can down the road. The government has recently announced they are creating more training places, but only 4000 which is really the bare minimum. They’ve also said this offer is contingent on strikes ending, so what they’re essentially offering doctors is next to nothing if strikes end, or nothing if strikes continue. No wonder they’re angry, I would be.

Some people have gone from “clap for the NHS” to “screw them”. 

> Streeting has maintained he will not negotiate on that after resident doctors pay has been increased by nearly 30% in the past three years

Doctors will find little support this time i think.

Just checked the article – it has a graph on it about salaries.
The 2022 levels were bad and strikes were well justified.
But with the 2025 increase, they get 39k in year 1 of their career?
By year 3 they cross the “higher rate” tax bracket.
Honestly, that doesn’t seem too bad.

I was under the impression Streeting said he’d extend the current vote agreement to strike/not to ask the Drs not to strike right now but would have “permission” to do so in Jan when need is not at it’s peak? I’m guessing that defeats the purpose to not do it when most needed to prove a point but if anyone smarter than me could help me understand a little better would be appreciated. I understand it’s not really about pay but training etc.