Clare
@clare_angela_
Doctor 🩺 Rad ST1 // sometimes social commentator 🇵🇸
The free food @wesstreeting is promising Resident Doctors.
Inflation jumps to 3.6% percent meaning that the NHS pay award is now completely lost to inflation!
UK inflation jumps more than expected to 3.6% bbc.in/3UdVgZ7
Imagine someone nicks £40 from your £100. They give you £20 back, then call you greedy for asking for the rest. That’s what doctors are facing. They are being paid 20% less in real terms than they were in 2008. Full pay restoration is not an unreasonable demand.
If we want to talk turnouts and votes… Labour took 33.7% on a 59.8% turnout at the general election last year. That’s just 20.15% of the electorate voting Labour. Mr Streeting took 33.4% on a 60.2% turnout. That’s just 20.11% of the Ilford North electorate voting for him.
Decisions I have taken mean that Resident Doctors have had a 28.9% pay increase covering the last three years. These are not grounds for strike action. And most BMA resident doctors didn’t vote to strike. I will be meeting the BMA today.