"The BMA Should Stop Holding Our Country To RANSOM!" | Junior Doctors Begin Five-Day Strike

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The NHS may have to cut frontline staff plus appointments and operations for patients if doctors’ strikes continue, health leaders have warned. As thousands of resident doctors go on strike across England on Friday in a dispute over pay, the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, which represent health trusts, said continued action was piling pressure on already-stretched budgets. The five-day action is the 13th walkout by doctors since March 2023, with the last strike in July estimated to have cost the health service £300 million. Resident doctors make up around half the medical workforce in the NHS and have up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor or three years as a GP. Mark Dolan confronts NHS GP Anita Raja on why junior doctors have decided to strike. "If they want to be so greedy, I'm happy to get doctors from abroad, who are paid less than those here... so the British Medical Association stops holding our country to ransom!" Have you got a story? Email [email protected] Click here for more from Talk https://talk.tv If you need any help visit: https://talk.tv/helplines #nhs #doctors #strike