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We’ve written to Wes Streeting to ask the Government to #endGPunemployment by: ▶️Providing ring-fenced funding to hire more GPs ▶️Creating a national retention strategy for GPs in England ▶️Delivering more practice-based opportunities bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent…

This is madness. We have a desperate shortage of doctors yet The BMA is reporting a GP jobs ‘crisis’ leaves qualified doctors considering unemployment benefits! How is this even happening Wes Streeting? We urgently need to fix this independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Spoke to doctors at Newham today. Resident doctors will be voting YES for strike action as the current DDRB offer of 0.9% above inflation means another 27 years until FPR. See you on the picket lines ✊🏼

For me the decision to vote YES to strike is this simple. As an F2 with the uplift my pay would be £44,438 per year. A physician associate would start on £47,763 per year. As an SHO, I am responsible for more unwell patients being escalated to me, more responsibility on an

If we received a 1% above inflation pay rise every year, it would take an entire generation to restore our pay. That is obviously unacceptable.

➡️We share the concerns set out in the BMA’s recent letter to SoS which includes some of our own survey data. ➡️They also reflect the concerns the College has also been raising with ministers and what we've been hearing from our members - GPs are struggling to find appropriate

Wes Streeting We are ready and willing to negotiate. Resident doctors are no longer able to tolerate the pay cuts and deteriorating conditions - we would rather resolve this with dialogue, but we are currently left with no choice but to ballot.

This uplift is hugely disappointing and underlines how SAS doctors are still far from being properly recognised or valued. With both the DDRB and the Government failing us we are now entering into dispute.

Classic

Pay is one part of this but the rest are important 📉 Pay erosion over 14 years 📆 unable to book leave until the last min 🎓 unfunded mandatory exams ‼️ the widespread use of 1yr contracts 😰 fear of unemployment …are all reasons doctors are leaving. Can you blame them?

One step at a time. We’ve sought negotiations, we measured consultant sentiment earlier in the year, this is below members expectations and in the zone they would take action for. We hope to avoid industrial action but will ratchet up as needed. Start to organise & sign up!

Today I held a pay & pizza event at Whiston Hospital to talk about the pay campaign, training bottlenecks, and other issues. Doctors feel betrayed by the derisory 1% above inflation rise and are ready to go again. #DoctorStrike #PayRestoration

Yesterday BMA Consultants and BMA SAS Doctors members in England entered into dispute with the government This is a direct result of government interference in the DDRB process & DDRB members not following their new remit to resist such interference This is unacceptable

Very simply; Should this review fail to take the necessary steps to protect patients and doctors’ licences, disputes and industrial action are practically inevitable. The steps? 🔹Set national scope 🔸Ban doctor replacement 🔹Job title change 🔸Clear consent 🔹Change regulator

Emma Woolf LBC Nick Ferrari The Labour Party Heard your piece on LBC. Fairly uninformed But you’re correct it’s not like this in private sector Their pay stagnated to much less degree, has recovered, and started to rise in real terms In your opinion should public sector workers subsidise underfunding of public services?

To clear some things up: if you vote yes for strike action, you will still get the pay uplift. You will likely be back paid in August for the pay uplift. Voting yes to strike action doesn’t stop us working to improving training number and job access.

Absolute gutter journalism. Doctors aren't trying their "luck" - we are standing up for pay restoration after over a decade of cuts. It was clear we expected a journey to pay restoration but Wes Streeting has not delivered. The government must be held to account.

If we let them get away with giving us another real-terms pay cut this year under the DDRB's revised terms of reference, we will never get pay restoration. If we only ever get our value recognised by demanding it through collective action, then so be it; that's on the Government.

This is of course good news, but let me get this right… Starmer now backs the thing he considered so egregious for Labour MPs to back that he booted 7 MPs out of the party for doing so?! That’s one hell of a U-Turn.

Ok, let’s say you have £100 and then: 🔹I take £32 from you. 🔸I give you back £11 and say we should call it even. For clarity, you’re saying you’d be happy with that? And you’re absolutely right Emma, this👇🏼 hasn’t happened to the private sector.