BMA West Midlands Resident Doctor Committee

🚨 UHB locum rate cuts U TURN 🚨 @uhbtrust have reversed all cuts to doctors extra contractual work rates. @TheBMA have suspended the dispute. We have shown trusts up and down the country the power of our collective action as doctors. What a WIN for our members ‼️

Wes Streeting has failed to commit to negotiate on pay. We are left with no choice but to strike. We will strike between 07:00 Friday 25th July and 06:59 Wednesday 30th July. This will be a full walkout. Strikes are the only message that successive governments listen to.

The future of the profession depends on you sending your ballot back today. If we fail the 50% threshold it will mean another generation of pay and contract erosion. The last safe date to return your ballot is Monday 30th June. Don't delay. Vote today.

If you’ve been meaning to post your ballot but not gotten round to it - post it today! ✉️ It’s a lovely evening for a walk to the postbox 📮 Monday is the last safe day to return your ballot, but don’t wait ❌ We cannot afford to be complacent. Every last ballot will count 🗳️

Each vote counts - *your* vote counts! No matter how you feel about the pay campaign, the BMA, the NHS... Fact of the matter remains the BMA are the only ones that can legally negotiate with the govt on behalf of doctors. Give us leverage to advocate for our profession!

We’ve still not heard from you about negotiating a route to restore our pay. I don’t call that progress. I call it stalling. It’s awfully difficult to work together when one side isn’t talking

Pizza event and ward walk today at the new MMUH Hospital @SWBHnhs in Birmingham! Doctors expect Full Pay Restoration - and since @wesstreeting won’t commit to it, we’re voting YES to strike action. ✊🏽Vote YES today! 🦀🦀🦀

Great lunchtime spent with @Andrew_Jordan_ talking to resident Drs at UHCW! We discussed feeling undervalued as professionals & how standing up for pay is key in tackling that. They know @wesstreeting’s actions are not matching his (many) words. Only option left is Vote YES 🦀

Now THIS is how you vote YES 🦀🦀🔥🔥 Return your ballots! Bonus points if you post a more impressive shot than @DrBeckyl ⭐

Pay - our pay is still 20.9% eroded after the DDRB recommendation Conditions - doctors are sitting on bins Opportunities - PAs earning more, training bottlenecks, looming unemployment Frankly, I don’t see much improvement. Vote YES for FPR Vote YES to make them take action

❌ Doctors pay? Lower than their assistants. ❌ Doctors conditions? We're still sitting on bins. ❌ Doctors opportunities? Thousands of doctors will be unemployed whilst you wait longer than ever to see one. Get around the negotiating table and avoid strikes @wesstreeting

Starting the week off in the right way. Voting YES for full pay restoration. Voting YES to make the government take action and negotiate a route to FPR. Voting YES to raise a first year doctor from £17.56/hr to £22.67 to retain them in the NHS. #DoctorsVoteYes #YESforFPR

It was clear during today’s ward walk at the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital that doctors disagree. Doctors expect Full Pay Restoration, and if the government doesn’t commit to this, doctors will Vote Yes to strike action in the @BMAResidents ballot. @BMAWestMidsRDC

Great turnout at yesterday’s Pizza and Pay event at the QE in Birmingham with @shukuriii The message is clear that if @wesstreeting does not commit to full pay restoration, doctors will vote for further strike action. Ballot opens 27th May 🦀 @BMAResidents @BMAWestMidsRDC

Invest in our doctors of the future, not their assistants.

Doctors at New Cross, join us in the Mess on Tuesday at 1PM! Come along for free pizza & an update from your reps on the pay campaign, what’s happening next & how you can be ready if we move to a strike ballot. Get strike ready, update your details today bit.ly/UpdateYourDeta…

The DDRB report on our Pay is late. @BMAResidents will be re entering dispute if this delay is not addressed by April 9. Resident doctors, we need to be ballot ready! Update your address and work details now. myaccount.bma.org.uk

We have entered dispute with the Government over exception reporting reform delays for doctors in England. Watch the update to members from your RDC co-chairs @Melissa_S_Ryan @RossNieuwoudt

Another trust imposing tone deaf decisions. Please confirm @MFTnhs that doctors will not be expected to be contactable during their breaks including when on call. This needs an immediate U turn. In Solidarity.

We strongly oppose @MFTnhs decision to not pay for breaks for locum shifts. If doctors are expected to be available throughout their shift, they must be paid for the full duration. Doctors will not work for free.

We are deeply disappointed that @RWT_NHS and @WalsallHcareNHS have chosen to remove paid breaks for locum doctors, ignoring strong opposition from LNC reps earlier this month. Doctors are already overworked and underpaid. We call for an immediate reversal of this decision.