“Our hope is that we can have productive negotiations and that we can come out with an offer that we can put to our members but we have to remain vigilant”

⁦ ⁦⁦⁦Oba Babs-Osibodu⁩ on the latest development in the junior doctor pay dispute in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

📢Pay dispute update 📢

As a result of your unity & sustained pressure the Welsh Government has made a significant proposal to open pay negotiations.

An email has been sent to all members with full details.

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NEW SURVEY📊

A BMA Cymru Wales survey of medical students has revealed that 39% plan to leave Wales after graduation to start their medical careers elsewhere with better pay and working conditions cited as the main reasons not to stay.

BMA Cymru Wales Junior Doctors

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Junior doctors in Wales continue their 4-day strike today, calling for #PayRestoration to help fix a workforce crisis especially pronounced in Wales.

Meanwhile BMA Cymru Wales reveals 39% of medical students in Wales plan to leave the country after graduation👇
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'Wi jyst yn meddwl taw pobol yw’r adnodd mwyaf gwerthfawr sy gyda ni yn y Gwasanaeth Iechyd, a fi’n credu os y’n ni ddim yn edrych ar ôl nhw, wel pwy sy’n mynd i edrych ar ein hôl ni yndife?'

🗣️Dyma beth oedd gan y cyhoedd i ddweud am dâl meddygon iau #adfertâl 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

“It’s shocking they’re paid so little considering the level of work, education and training”

“People are our greatest resource in the NHS and if we don’t look after them, who will look after us”

🗣️Here’s what the public had to say about junior doctor pay⬇️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Fullpayrestoration

A BMA Cymru Wales survey of medical students has revealed that 39% plan to leave Wales after graduation to start their medical careers elsewhere with better pay and working conditions cited as the main reasons not to stay. Please let's retain our brilliant doctors! BMA Cymru Wales Junior Doctors

'Pay restoration is necessary. Working conditions are poor. I'm already feeling demotivated to pursue a career in medicine as a medical student'

🧵A thread featuring some of the reasons medical students are choosing to leave Wales after they graduate …

80% of those who intend to leave Wales plan to begin foundation training in England and 15% in Scotland where junior doctors receive higher pay ⬇️

“The fact that students are now actively looking to leave Wales to develop their career elsewhere is a testament to the prolonged undervaluing of doctors in Wales'

Dr Peter Fahey and Oba Babs-Osibodu in response to the survey ⬇️

'I am Welsh and I hate the idea of leaving Wales but as things stand, I struggle to see a good future for myself in the profession here. It is a terrible dichotomy'

⬆️One of the responses from the survey

As a final year medical student born and raised in Wales and trained in Cardiff, it breaks my heart to be one of these 39% leaving to start work.

Marginally better pay and more academic opportunities in England are my personal reasons for leaving.

Change is needed in Cymru.

39% of Medical students in Wales don’t want to stay in a system where doctors are so undervalued, starting on £13.65 an hour - just £2.21/hr more than minimum wage from next month!

Welsh Government it’s time doctors are paid what they deserve. Full pay restoration.

Thousands of junior doctors strike in Wales
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