The UK government v junior doctors
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, the Junior Doctor's Strike is over. |
| 0:12.0 | For now. |
| 0:14.0 | Where do they go from here? What do you want? What do you want? |
| 0:24.0 | When do you want? |
| 0:25.0 | When do you want? |
| 0:26.0 | Now! |
| 0:27.0 | What do you want? |
| 0:28.0 | When do you want it? |
| 0:30.0 | Now! |
| 0:31.0 | Junior doctors across England and Wales have been striking on and off for months. |
| 0:35.0 | Staff across the NHS, including nurses and radiographers, are locked in pay disputes with the government. |
| 0:42.0 | But the six-day walkout by junior doctors in the last week |
| 0:45.0 | was the longest continuous strike in the NHS's history. |
| 0:49.0 | It's still not too late. |
| 0:51.0 | The Secretary of State or anyone from the government could still come to us today, |
| 0:54.1 | and if that offer is credible and if we can resume talks and build on that credible offer, |
| 0:58.0 | then we can stop our strike action for the rest of this week. |
| 1:00.8 | The medical training to become a doctor takes years and they say |
| 1:05.8 | the cost can be crippling. So my student debt is over a hundred thousand at the |
| 1:12.3 | moment and the amount of money that I'm paying doesn't even cover |
| 1:15.8 | the interest for the year. |
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