British doctors hold their longest ever strike
| British doctors have announced plans to stage their longest ever strike following the breakdown of talks between their union and the government over working conditions and pay. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, doctors under the cover of the “British Medical Association” (BMA) union announced the longest medical strike in the history of the British “National Health Service” (NHS) after The negotiations of this union with the London government on increasing the salaries and improving the working conditions of these doctors have failed.
According to the news agency “Press Association”, the representatives of this union have held negotiations with the government for five weeks. held in London to find a solution to the dispute over doctors’ salaries.
The British Medical Association announced after this period that the Department of Health and Social Care in England has made a suitable proposal to end the strikes. The protesting doctors failed.
The General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association then unanimously approved a plan to hold strikes in December and January.
According to this program, these doctors will start from seven in the morning on December 20 (December 29) to seven in the morning on December 23 (December 2) and also from seven in the morning on January 3, 2024 (December 13) to January 9 (December 19). They will go on a nationwide strike in England.
The said union announced that the strike, which will be implemented for six full days in January, will mark the longest period of strike by doctors in the history of the National Health Service in England.
“Victoria” Atkins, the Minister of Health and Social Care of England, said in response to this statement, that the London government will “immediately come to the negotiation table” if these doctors cancel their strike. It will be back.”
He warned that the doctors’ strike would put extra pressure on the NHS during the busy winter season and “put patient safety at risk”. .
The heads of British hospitals warned that the collapse of the negotiations between the protesting doctors and the government is the result they were worried about, and warned that these strikes are “attempts to reduce the waiting list of patients” as They will undermine one of the priorities of British Prime Minister Rishi Sonak.
The London government has offered the protesting doctors a three percent salary increase in addition to the average increase of 8.8 percent that was previously given in the summer season. They proposed, put forward.
But the British Medical Association said, this plan and the way of paying salaries to doctors of different degrees are unfair and ineffective and objected to it.
Another British medical union known as the “Association of Hospital Specialists and Consultants” also announced that general practitioners affiliated with this union will join the 72-hour strike that will begin on December 20.
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