Take it or leave it Streeting tells doctors - ‘I can’t offer higher pay increase’

Wes Streeting — you had a hand in the junior doctors’ latest cynical and cruel demand. Own it — Carole Malone

Are we still expected to believe that greedy junior doctors give a stuff about whether patients live or die? I ask because after two years of industrial action, they’re yet again threatening to bring the NHS to a standstill if they don’t get a 30 per cent pay rise – on top of the 22 per cent they got last year?The BMA must know that kind of radical action will kill people

Take it or leave it Streeting tells doctors - ‘I can’t offer higher pay increase’

Wes Streeting has warned doctors he “cannot” offer an improved pay rise as both sides refuse to back down over the threat of major industrial action. Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, in England are being balloted for strike action by the British Medical Association (BMA), which will last for six months and hit the NHS during its busiest period in the winter.The BMA claimed on Sunday that the Health Secretary has refused to ent…