Tens of thousands of operations and appointments have been cancelled because of NHS strikes this year.
They pointed to the fact that the Government of South Australia last week sent mobile billboards down to the BMA picket lines encouraging them to apply for jobs Down Under as well as targeting disenfranchised medics on social media.ĭr Laurenson and Dr Trivedi added: 'Restoring pay can stem the flow of Australian job adverts in doctors’ social media feeds – and lead to a future 75 years of doctors being paid fairly, in a rebuilt workforce and NHS that this country can continue to be proud of.'
The BMA also highlighted that other nations were taking advantage of the UK Government devaluing its medics. 'Even now the Government can avert our action by coming to the table with a credible offer on pay restoration.'
'We are announcing the longest single walkout by doctors in the NHS’s history – but this is not a record that needs to go into the history books,' they said. The union leaders said while their strike action in July would be one for the 'history books' ministers still had the chance to avert further disruption to patients. 'What better indication of how committed they are to ending this dispute could we have?' 'It has been almost a week since the last round of strikes finished - but not once have we heard from Rishi Sunak or Steve Barclay in terms of reopening negotiations since their collapse of our talks and cancelling all scheduled meetings a month ago,' they said. This, they argued, left them with little choice but to announce further NHS action. The pair added they had not heard from ministers since their three-day walk-out last week. 'With the 75th birthday of the NHS just days away, neglect of its workforce has left us with 7.4m people on waiting lists for surgery and procedures, 8,500 unfilled doctors’ posts in hospitals, and doctors who can barely walk down the road without a foreign government tempting them to leave an NHS where they are paid £14 per hour for a country which will pay them properly.' 'And it is shameful we have a Government seemingly content to let it decline to the point of collapse with decades of real-terms pay cuts to doctors driving them away. More than half a million NHS appointments in England have been cancelled due to health service strikes since December, official figures showĬo-chairs of the BMA junior doctors committee Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi said: 'The NHS is one of this country’s proudest achievements.
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