The longest strike in NHS history: will junior doctors get a pay rise? | The New Statesman podcast

Описание: Junior doctors are undergoing a 6-day walk out, the longest strike in NHS history, will the Conservative government budge and offer a pay rise?

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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 strike, 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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