The chief executive said a “well-established and robust” plan was in place, but that NHS leaders had been “distracted from doing our day job”.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has also described the strikes as “irresponsible”.<\/p>\n
They were planned after the government offered a fresh deal which included increasing speciality training posts and covering out-of-pocket expenses, like exam fees.<\/p>\n
The offer did not include any promises on pay which, for resident doctors, has been increased by almost 30% in the past three years.<\/p>\n
However, the BMA argued that, despite the rises, resident doctors’ pay was a fifth lower than it was in 2008, once inflation was taken into account.<\/p>\n
Resident doctor leader Dr Jack Fletcher said: “Tens of thousands of front-line doctors have come together to say ‘no’ to what is clearly too little, too late.”<\/p>\n
He added the union was “committed to ensuring patient safety” and would be in close contact with NHS England throughout the industrial action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive said a “well-established and robust” plan was in place, but that NHS leaders had been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-320436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}