The Health Secretary has said that on the eve of the action of his strike, he spoke deeply in a letter to the resident doctors in a letter to the resident doctors.
Wes Streeting said that he is engaged in good faith in “good faith” engaged in “efforts to stop the strike to the representatives of the British Medical Association (BMA).
Resident Doctor – New word for junior doctors – will Start a five -day strike On Friday, 07:00 on BST in salary on salary.
The BMA has said that it is “very sorry that strikes have become necessary” and that the walkout “was something that doctors do not want to do”.
In a letter sent on Thursday, Streeting stated that the strike proceedings should be “always a final measure”.
Streeting wrote that the government could not take the risk of going forward on salary, but “was” ready to interact on areas related to your conditions on work and career progress “.
From August this year, after an increase of 22% in the last two years, resident doctors will increase by 5.4%.
But BMA said that even after an increase in August, the actual wages were about 20% less than in 2008.
BMA wants the payment to be brought back to the level of 17 years ago, when they say their salary was ending.
Streeting stated that the salary deal was “the highest pay prize of the entire public sector for resident doctors”.
He said that during a conversation with BMA representatives from 8 to 19 July, he underlined three areas, believing that “we could work together to make real improvements”.
This included dealing with the “difficult” training route.
“I made it clear that I was ready to agree with the tasks to reduce the costs faced by you,” Streeting said.
He said that another area requires improvement, the cost of equipment, food and drinks was, and he said “how many more training positions could be constructed, it was designed to find out”.
He said that the BMA chose the route that would lead to “payers for the government and NHS”, instead of improving the working life of the resident doctors, he said.
The strike is moving forward after a talks between the government and the BMA on Tuesday.
During the five -day conversation, both sides discussed the progress of the rapid career with additional financial assistance to the resident doctors to cover the examination fee and the cost of equipment.
The BMA sought a plan to help help in writing student loans, but the government rejected it.
BMA leader Dr. Tom Dolphin said: “We are very sorry that the attacks have become necessary and certainly if people have an emergency or need immediate care then they should still be present in the hospital or their GP as always as they do.
“Striking is something that doctors do not want to do,” he said, saying that the walkout could have been avoided if the “a real passage” was made on restoring the “lost value” of the salary.
He said that BMA was still open to further discussion about resolving the dispute.
Professor Tim Briges, who is a national director in NHS England and with a conversation with the BMA on strike planning, said that doctors have the right to strike, it should never harm the patient.
Senior doctors are being asked to provide covers, but Professor Brigs expressed concern about the impact on both emergency and non-essential care.
NHS England aims to keep a majority of non-essential care, such as the knee and hip operations, going during this strike, which marks a change in the approach to the approach compared to the previous industrial action when such treatment was canceled.
BMA believed that this approach was not safe-and said that non-essential care should be canceled in many cases to ensure that emergency services are better covered.
Resident doctors have been involved in 11 strikes in their long -running salary dispute, due to which more than a million treatment and appointments have been canceled.
Professor Briges told the BBC: “We know from the epidemic and the final strike that if you cancel them [non-urgent] Patients are waiting for many time, they harm patients.
“You can’t reduce alternative and emergency care, both move together.”
Meanwhile, NHS managers have also criticized what they say that the shift rates being requested by senior doctors to provide covers for the doctors striking are being inflated.
The Daniel Alkels of NHS providers who represent health managers, stated that the strike would be a “crushed shock” for patients.
He said that another “big concern” cost was cost, saying that BMA had recommended to ask senior doctors to ask “inflated rates” which were “just ineffective”.
BMA recommended senior doctors to emphasize premium rates that the night shift for advisors could exceed £ 300 per hour.
This may mean that they can earn three times they do in general.
BMA said that doctors need to be encouraged to take this extra work.
