The second longest strike of British doctors this year

According to “NTV”, young English doctors have been fighting for higher salaries for months. They stopped their work temporarily in early January in a protest action and now they are doing this strike again for five days. Hundreds of thousands of appointments and operations will be postponed since the strikes began.

In England, thousands of young doctors in NHS hospitals They stop their work for five days. The British Medical Association (BMA) wants a 35% pay rise for junior doctors in line with ongoing inflation. On the other hand, the government considers this demand excessive.

This is the second long strike since the beginning of the year and the eleventh strike in the collective bargaining dispute. It has been going on for months. In January, young doctors did not work in English hospitals for six days. The renewed protest comes at a time when the NHS, which has been underfunded for years, is struggling with shortages of medical professionals and long waiting lists for treatment.

Robert Lawrenson and Vivek Trivedi, representatives of the Junior Doctors Union, said: “The government could have ended these strikes simply by making a credible offer to young doctors in England.” This would have allowed the government to reverse wage cuts that had been in place for more than a decade. He had announced salaries up to 10.3 percent. Health Secretary Victoria Atkins is now lamenting that the union has refused to present the government’s latest offer to its members. The British health minister said: I want to see doctors treating patients, not on the strike lines. According to them, more than 1.3 million appointments and surgeries have had to be canceled or rescheduled since the strikes began.

According to Junior doctors in England earn around £15 (€17.30) an hour in their first year of practice, so around £32,000 (€37,000) an hour, the government said. Adjusted for inflation, salaries have fallen by almost a quarter since 2008, according to the BMA. Inflation in the UK has been even higher than in many Western countries over the past two years.

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