Striking Resident Doctors Threaten NHS Progress, Says Health Secretary
Wes Streeting accuses resident doctors' union of rejecting government's pay rise and training post offer, derailing NHS progress on wait times.
Striking resident doctors in England have torpedoed their own pay rises and training opportunities by walking out on strike, according to Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
Streeting said there was a "legitimacy" to doctors' concerns over jobs and wages, but that the British Medical Association (BMA) had scuppered any chance of a breakthrough when it rejected what he called a "serious offer" from the government to transform medics' conditions.
Tens of thousands of doctors in England began a six-day stoppage this week, the latest in a series of strikes that have threatened to derail the National Health Service's (NHS) progress on reducing wait times.
Source: The Guardian
