NHS strike action: Junior doctors in England begin five-day walkout

Patients face further major disruption as junior doctors in England begin a five-day strike in their ongoing pay row with the government.

Tens of thousands of hospital appointments are set to be cancelled or postponed as a result.

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[hangtime]

no worries The United Kingdom is going to provide a further 8.5 million to fund Ukraine that should help to solve all the issues 👏👍

[barneymagee]

Sorry folks, lenski has priority, Slavva. Slavva etc

[jayparmar]

They should not be allowed to strike what disruption there causing innocent patients it should be illegal as it is for police

[brummiedave]

Why do they call themselves Junior Doctors? They are qualified doctors. Gives a false impression. How do they afford to go on strike so much 10 times. Is it greed asking for 35 % or political?

[asmith]

sympathy with doctors and patients, doctors paid for tuition and studied with expectations of pay scale various pay rises were ignored now its catch up time the government should pay a fair rate to the doctors

[captainwalker]

This is how it works for everybody not just doctors: 'We are your government. We erode your pay over 15 years - because we can. Everybody else has had their pay eroded. We did not plan for COVID and money to be spend on wars. We have no money now and we can't afford to restore pay, so everybody is in the same boat. Now get back to work.'

[Thronewatcher]

our nation could of invested in its people and birthed many new doctors and nurses but they'd rather hire the foreign doctors because they don't question the class model

[Yazzie]

They have funding for wars but not got the living

[StarSprangledBanner]

Only BREXIT can solve this mess....

Oh wait 😢

[NatashaSingh]

If the doctors face a lot of hurdles in the NHS, then why don't they leave the service and go elsewhere? Don't they have other options?

[dorino]

👏 I support junior doctors they need to get a fair wage 👏

[trulyexorcise]

Didn't notice them back at work,

[grantsapain]

Privatization is the only solution to the crumbling NHS...

[jaguarg]

Still they New the wages when they started training

[earnestequivocation]

Victoria Atkins referred to them as trainee doctors.
Contemptuous, ignorant or both?
One poster refers to ‘the already rich’……blissfully ignorant of just how low starting pay is or just dishonest propaganda?

[RaRa-eumw]

The already rich demanding a 35% pay rise, when ordinary people are struggling. It's reprehensible.

[LeadsTheFallen]

The BMA has been seeking a 35% "pay restoration" as its starting position, but has said it is willing to negotiate.

[H-youtube]

How old is Dr Laurenson? 16 going on 60?

[jivefive]

The North sea oil fields are empty and the (free) nuns have left. Youve run out of free ride. The government needs to pay for NHS personnel properly and stop worrying so much about the billionaires. And the UK people need to lose weight, eat heathy and stop smoking.

[TZplayer]

My op cancelled, now indefinitely, cheers.