Dr Melissa Ryan 🦀
@Melissa_S_Ryan
Doctor | Co-Chair of the BMA UK Resident Doctors Committee | DV | Full Pay Restoration | views my own | likes/RTs does not mean endorsement.
Wes Streeting has said that pay restoration is a journey When you take inflation based on the current RPI of 4.4% into account, this year’s pay offer amounts to an 1% increase At this rate it would take about 20yrs to recover the 21% pay erosion since 2008 theguardian.com/society/2025/j…
We fully support resident doctors in their fight for #PayRestoration Consultants in England – read our guidance on working during strike action bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/…
At today's RDC meeting, we’ve voted to go ahead with strike action. Last week when we met @wesstreeting we were open to finding solutions to restore pay and improve working conditions. Today, we still do not have a credible offer on the table @Melissa_S_Ryan @RossNieuwoudt
I’m renovating my new (old) house Electrician £35 ph Plumber £31.25 ph Plasterer £28 ph Painters £28 ph Non can save my life. @wesstreeting pay FY1 doctors a fair wage. A min of £25 ph should be the absolute basic salary. Personally I’d recommend at least £30ph #SavingLives
We support our resident doctor colleagues in their fight for #PayRestoration SAS doctors: show your solidarity with resident doctors Read our guidance on working during the strikes bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/…
At today's RDC meeting, we’ve voted to go ahead with strike action. Last week when we met @wesstreeting we were open to finding solutions to restore pay and improve working conditions. Today, we still do not have a credible offer on the table @Melissa_S_Ryan @RossNieuwoudt
@goldstone_tony @BMA_Consultants @BMAResidents I see they have again decided to miss the years 2008-2010 where the largest drop against inflation occurred!
“When (Resident) doctors can see that they are being paid significantly less and being treated significantly worst than they used to be, then something has to give.” Tonight @RossNieuwoudt spoke to @LBC ahead of strike action across England this week👇 #PayRestoration
Did you know if an Uber driver works 12 hour shifts around unsociable hours for 7 days a week they can clear £100k/year? Does Jon Kay think we are paying Uber drivers too much?
.@Melissa_S_Ryan from @BMAResidents: "Patients will be astounded to know that first year doctors are on £17.60/hr" Jon Kay with his gotcha: yes but doctors do overtime & get paid for that.
We have LOST more pay over the years than any other workforce group. Doctors want their pay restored. The Gov't has not acted in good faith - offering nothing concrete and not addressing our core concerns. They can choose to stop strikes. If not, we strike hard. 🦀🦀🦀
Health and Social Care Secretary @WesStreeting responds to the BMA confirming Resident Doctor strikes will go ahead on Friday 👇
I've been quick to judge Unions taking strike action in the past but I fully support resident Doctors taking action. For the stress and life changing decisions they make day in day out, even £22.67ph seems like a bargain to be quite honest.
Wes Streeting is copying the same failed Tory playbook - and doctors see right through it. No offer on pay. No plan to move fully qualified doctors from £18.62/hr to £22.67/hr, even over time. Vague “non pay elements” that mean nothing. Student loan forgiveness wasn’t even on…
I’ve been a Doctor 36yrs & I understand why Residents have resorted to strikes 20% less pay than Drs in 2008, £100k student debt, poor working conditions/job security, higher pension contributions, longer working life as pension after 67yrs I had it good & Karol had it better
Doctor strikes going ahead. A poor decision. I have never striked for a single minute in my fifty plus year career in medicine, and I never will.
Logically this seems dangerous but apparently there’s no evidence to prove it…. So I guess it must be safe? 🌞 It’s a tricky concept to grasp, but absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence
What you are talking about is a proportionate means to a legitimate aim. The Leng review did not find a patient safety risk so that is out the window. Arguably, saying it now becomes a malicious falsehood... but please, keep clutching at straws and showing your desperation. Froth…
I am of her generation And I completely disagree UK resident doctors should strike for better T&Cs 100%
Her thinking is completely illogical unless she believes that, ultimately, doctors should be prepared to work for nothing @TheBMA @r1chardf1tzg3r1
Just a personal view If as a senior clinician you find Resident Doctors position “outrageous”? Then you should also declare your lack of outstanding debts, relevant Clinical awards, Pension pot etc simultaneously And no, we didn’t work “much harder” than them. I should…
The idea that resident doctors striking are selfish, or harming patients, ignores what the workforce has been saying for years: Chronic understaffing unsafe conditions are already harming patients every single day. Pay erosion increases understaffing and leads to more harm.
It’s absolutely not true of every profession. In fact, on average private sector workers pay has restored its value to 2008 levels. Doctors, nurses, teachers, police, fire fighters and other public sector workers remain behind. Doctors being amongst the hardest hit.
No he hasn’t. Meeting whilst refusing to negotiate is meaningless and bad faith. Doctors met him and he refused to table any concrete proposals. After ignoring doctors’ calls for talks since May. Agree a multi year deal to restore pay, win win for all x.com/bma_james_stee…
So Wes has; 🔸Failed to deliver last year’s deal 🔹Refused to talk with RDC since May 🔸Pretended RDC didn’t want to talk 🔹Agreed to talk but not on pay 🔸Now wants strikes called off to talk having offered absolutely nothing?! Meet the new boss, he’s just like the old boss.
"rates could not be escalated because it was a known gap" What?!
repost from Reddit. A Trust in the U.K. tonight, without any strikes taking place. @wesstreeting @ShaunLintern @SkyNews @LBCNews
.@Melissa_S_Ryan from @BMAResidents explains the govt is refusing to make an offer on pay, refusing to make on offer on pay restoration & refusing to make an offer on a non pay package Thats why resident doctors are being forced to go on strike. Solidarity with resident doctors.