Health correspondent
Getty imagesThe Health Secretary said that NHS is challenging for a few days during the doctors’ strike in England, as it tries to run more and more services, said the Health Secretary.
Wes Streeting said that it was not possible to eliminate the disruption of the five -day strike by the resident doctors, it was being kept minimal.
The strike by thousands of resident doctors, earlier known as junior doctors, failed to reach an agreement on salary after the government and the British Medical Association (BMA) on Friday.
NHS wants to keep non-essential services running, patients urged to participate in appointments until they were canceled. BMA has warned that employees are being very diluted.
The Sangh has started agreeing with some requests for doctors to come out of picket lines and work in hospitals that experience the most pressure.
A doctor has been asked to return to work in the newborn intensive care unit of Nottingham City Hospital over the weekend.
And BMA has given a request from Levishum Hospital in South London for two anesthetists to work on Saturday.
Prior to this strike, the 12th since March 2023, the Sangh had given only five requests to doctors to return to work, known as insults.
No official figures have been released yet on the impact of the latest strike, but some hospitals are reporting more than 80% of their non-essential work. Senior doctors are covering for doctors.
The members of the public have still been urged to come forward for NHS care in England during the walkout.
NHS England said GP surgery would open as usual and immediate care and A&E will be available, with NHS 111, NHS England said.
Streeting said that the government “will not let the BMA go to give ransom to the country” and this “everything we can do to reduce the risk of patients”.
Friday morning writing Resident doctors urged not to follow their union under the “harmful road” of strike action,
He said the walkout would cause “heavy losses for NHS and the country”, as he criticized for “escape” in the BMA strike.
Resident doctors took picket lines in hospitals in England on Friday, calling Pasterd to restore salaries.
At St. Thomas Hospital in London, resident Dr. Kelly Johnson said the suggestion was unjust that it was felt like a “slap on the face”.
“When doctors decide to take a strike action, it is always painted as we are selfish, but we are as a body to help the public day here,” he said.
In the Leeds General Information, Registrar Christina Costache, a pediatrics, said it was a “difficult decision” to go on strike.
“I get depressed if I am not in work,” she said. “My heart is always at work. But I also care about my colleagues and my profession.”
The previous walkout has canceled extensively of operations, appointments and remedies.
In March 2023, during the resident doctor strike, more than one million was canceled and some hospitals were cut half -cut.
But this time NHS England ordered hospitals to cancel non-essential work only under extraordinary circumstances.
Doctors in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are not part of the pay dispute.
The conversation between the government and the union has been focused on non-paying issues, such as the examination fee, work status and progress of the career, Streeting said that salary was not open to negotiation.
Currently there is no plan for more dialogue, but it can change after the current strike proceedings are over.
Government sources say that the ball is in BMA court and they will still not negotiate salary.
BMA says, despite an increase of 22% in the last two years this year, the salary is still fifth, despite the 5.4% average increment this year, once since 2008.
After finishing medical degrees during its first foundation year, now doctor resident in England Earn the basic salary of £ 38,831In the second year, it increases to £ 44,439. The salary by the end of training is more than £ 73,000.
Medics are often expected to work for the night shift, weekend and longer for additional salary. They increase their earnings more than a quarter on an average.
BMA resident doctor’s co-leader Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr. Ross Neuvoud said: “The resident doctors are no less than 17 years ago.
“Restoration of salary remains the simplest and most effective path towards improving our working life.
“Mr. Streeting had every opportunity to stop this strike, but he did not choose to take it.”
EPA/ShutterskWhile most resident doctors work in hospitals, some GP practices and community services may also be affected. Resident doctors represent about half of the medical workforce.
Some patients have been affected. Bradford 32 -year -old Hasnain Shahid said that his three -year -old daughter had canceled her lung surgery on Monday.
He has a rare lung conditions which means that the cold is a serious risk for his health.
“It is an emotional rollercaster. It’s very disappointing,” said Hasanan.
The BMA said that it wrote to NHS England to say that employees working through the strike could be very thin. The Sangh said it would be better to reduce non-essential care, as it has happened earlier.
But the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of NHS providers, Saffron Corde, who represents hospitals, said that the hospital trying to run services would do so within the “rigorous security guidelines”.
He said that the situation was complicated by the fact that doctors were not obliged to say whether they would change.
“No one will know until they really turn to their innings.”
About two -thirds of doctors are BMA members.
Liberal Democrats has called for NHS strike flexibility scheme using private hospitals for some alternative remedies.
Conservative Shadow Health Secretary Stuart Andrew said the attacks threatened to pull hospitals into anarchy and leave patients “dangerously exposed”.
He criticized what he said to Labor’s “spinless surrender to union demands” last year, which he said that he allowed BMA to “return for more”.
Rory Dietan of NHS Confederation, who represent frontline health managers, said: “The effect and crisis of these attacks will rest patients with BMA.”
