Six-day walkout: will the government budge on junior doctors' pay?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Dr Emma Runswick, junior doctor in the North West and the current Deputy Chair of the BMA Council. They discuss what's driven junior doctors to the current 6 day walk out, on top of an accrued 28 days of stoppages over the past year. Will the BMA settle for anything less than a 35% pay rise? Has the new health secretary Victoria Atkins made any changes? And is this industrial action putting patients in danger?
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| 0:59.0 | Today we're going to be looking at the Junior Doctors' current six-day strike, the longest walkout in NHS history. Hello, I'm Anusha Kellian, Britain editor at the New Statesman and host of this |
| 1:17.9 | podcast. And joining me down the line, I have Emma Runswick, Junior Doctor in the Northwest and the current Deputy Chair of the BMA Council. |
| 1:25.4 | Now Emma, we actually spoke, didn't we, just over a year ago in December 2022. |
| 1:30.1 | That was before any Doctor's strikes had actually been called and junior doctors are currently striking for six days |
| 1:36.5 | We're on the we're recording on the second day of the strike and as I mentioned earlier that's the the longest in NHS history and it comes after an accrued 28 |
| 1:44.7 | days of stoppage over the last year and there's been multiple periods of |
| 1:49.3 | strike action by junior doctors and consultants as well in England since we last spoke. |
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