Why Doctors Are Striking … Again – Podcast

When Labour came into powerfulness they agreed to springiness resident doctors, formerly known arsenic inferior doctors, a 22% emergence complete 2 years to extremity their strikes. They past turned their attraction to updating nan NHS, unveiling an eager 10-year scheme to alteration nan measurement nan strategy is run. But now doctors person gone backmost to nan ballot box.

The Guardian’s wellness argumentation editor, Denis Campbell, tells Helen Pidd that nan British Medical Association (BMA), nan doctors’ union, says nan worth of their salaries has dropped 29% since 2008 acknowledgment to ostentation and serial debased salary rises. They want this restored. But pinch nationalist finances much stretched than ever, Wes Streeting is improbable to accede.

Denis explains why nan BMA is saying this salary emergence is “non-negotiable”, and besides why it looks arsenic if nan resident doctors are losing nationalist support. And moreover nan support of their elder colleagues. What could this conflict mean for Labour, spot successful doctors – and patients?

Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian