Junior doctors in the UK are striking for a significant pay rise and improved training conditions, arguing it's essential for retaining staff and the long-term health of the NHS, while critics contend the strike is unjustified, particularly during peak times, and driven by financial demands rather than patient care.
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talk about junior doctors. They are
going on strike tomorrow 7:00 a.m. for 5
days. Uh but um that this is after a
vote was announced yesterday by British
Medical Association members of the
resident doctors. We used to call them
junior doctors uh which uh basically
asked them whether they still wanted to
go ahead with that strike certainly uh
context of the flu outbreak. big
concerns about the rising number of
patients needing to be hospitalized and
whether or not it was the right time to
strike and it's being condemned by the
health secretary West Streeting but no
they will be going ahead uh with 83% of
the members who took part well over uh
60% took part in that vote say yeah we
want to go ahead they're requiring
demanding a 26% pay rise on top of the
29% uh they had this covering a couple
of years of course uh and they also want
some other uh changes to the training uh
jobs available to them. Well, let's talk
about this with Dr. Basha Bukajji. She's
an NHS GP and Basher, you are very much
in support of doctors going on strike.
Tell us why.
>> Well, first of all, Julie, I want to
just thank you for supporting doctors
and the conversation that we just had
before the break. Um, it's nice to
actually hear you say positive things
about doctors as well. And that's this
is this is the issue here. I'm a GP. I
don't get to strike myself, but this
strike is about something that affects
healthcare across the board. And the
truth is is that the way the NHS is
going, the way that we're seeing
corridor care, the way that even on non
strike days and non sort of winter days,
we're seeing such dire levels of uh
pressure on NHS and services across the
board. We need doctors to stay. We need
to retain the staff that we have paid in
taxpayers money to train and they're all
leaving. We are losing the best brains
in the country to other countries.
>> We're not losing that many. Can I just
ask you if we've got a massive shortage
of doctors and we've got people being as
we do people I've had an old one my own
family members left in a corridor with a
broken pelvis for 24 hours on a trolley
in the corridor and this is happening.
How on earth does doctors going on
strike for 5 days, one of the busiest
times of the year, help those patients?
What a load of nonsense.
>> Well, I will say that strikes are never
an easy choice to make and
>> they seem a very easy choice for the BMA.
BMA.
>> Sure. The people that have made this
choice, they've done this with taking I
mean, none of us actually come into
medicine trying to think about how we
can basically sherk our responsibility.
This is not what this is about. And I
don't think that the the people that
going on strike are trying to do that at
all. I think what we're trying to do is
swipe for our rights because if we
don't, the alternative is far worse. I'm
worried that the doctors who perhaps are
not going on strike, they're actually
going into private sector or they're
leaving the country or they're leaving
the NHS or the entire healthare system.
>> Okay. Let me say this. There is a
concern about this and again I have no
issue with doctors who are highly
trained um highly qualified individuals
being paid very well. I I don't I
genuinely not just because I'm a
doctor's daughter that I think this it
seems to me to be blatantly obvious that
the people who've worked that hard do
that job. We need people we want the
good people to be going into medicine.
So we're going to have to offer
competitive salaries. But we are not
talking about sort of you know 50% of
doctors leaving the NHS. We're talking
about a small number who leave. And
largely when people talk about the
issues why they're leaving, they're
leaving because of, you know, work life
balance uh rather than pay. That's not
the only issue. And and that is
something that's worth track talking
about. And certainly we're streeting the
health secretary who obviously thought
that dealing with the doctors was going
to be very very easy because he was a
labor health secretary, not a
conservative health secretary, woped
over a 29% pay rise backdated. It was
over a few years. Completely accept
that. But everyone said at the time,
including me, they're going to come back
for more. And within 24 hours, the BMA
representatives said, "Yes, we're going
to come back for more." Now, West
Streeting has offered some of the other
issues which I think are completely
legitimate concerns from BMA
representatives about the number of
training places available to qualified
doctors uh and the cost of the exams and
things like that. Those are all
perfectly valid and he's offered big
concessions on that. So, this isn't
about patience. This is about wanting
more money in their pockets. Let let's
just and and and and in return for that
they are willing to go on strike at one
of the busiest times of the year and
patients will die. That's the reality.
How can that be morally justified?
>> It's not morally justified at any point really.
