there s no doubt this five day strike byjunior doctors will be a huge challenge for the nhs. and while emergency departments like this will remain busy, other parts of hospitals will be closed for business. up to 15,000 treatments and appointments are disrupted each strike day, according to nhs england. come on, max. ..and one of those is richard s knee operation. the pain is like having a hot volcano in your knee. he s already waited ten months and has just had it further delayed because of the strikes. he says it s affecting his whole life. you have to take such powerful painkillers to deal with this pain that some days you can t function. butjunior doctors in england say they ve been forced to take this industrial action after seeing huge falls in their pay. over the past 15 years, doctors pay has fallen in real terms by over 30%, and we see this as being completely unsustainable. do you really expect to get a 30%
volcano in your knee. he s already waited ten months and has just had it further delayed because of the strikes. he says it s affecting his whole life. you have to take such powerful painkillers to deal with this pain that some days you can t function. butjunior doctors in england say they ve been forced to take this industrial action after seeing huge falls in their pay. over the past 15 years, doctors pay has fallen in real terms by over 30%, and we see this as being completely unsustainable. do you really expect to get a 30% pay increase, particularly in this climate? so we see it as being fair, first of all. we re asking for first year doctors to be earning £19 an hour, up from their current rate of £14 an hour, and we see it as being affordable. the government says, however, the pay demands are unreasonable and risk fuelling inflation and that the walkouts are putting patients at risk. the chief executive of the royal berkshire
with more people waiting than ever before and fewer people treated even though you ve got bigger budgets? so, numbers of patients, you re absolutely right that s going up and as we ve always said, that it s going to get bigger before it came down. but the longest waits are reducing and are reducing consistently. what do we want? all: fair pay! months of strike action have led to more than half a million appointments being rescheduled. nurses have now ended theirstrikes, butjunior doctors are set to walk out again later this month for five days and consultants will now strike, too, just a few days later. for the nhs boss, it s concerning. there has been a significant amount of disruption and that is only at the moment going to get more significant as we hit the next round of strikes. so that s seven out of eight days in the middle ofjuly where we ll see action. and the truth is, the hard truth is, it is patients that are paying the price. she s calling on both the health secretary and t
with more people waiting than ever before and fewer people treated even though you ve got bigger budgets? so, numbers of patients, you re absolutely right that s going up and as we ve always said, that it s going to get bigger before it came down. but the longest waits are reducing and are reducing consistently. what do we want? fair pay! months of strike action have led to more than half a million appointments being rescheduled. nurses have now ended their strikes, butjunior doctors are set to walk out again later this month for five days and consultants will now strike, too, just a few days later. for the nhs boss, it s concerning. there has been a significant amount of disruption and that is only at the moment going to get more significant as we hit the next round of strikes. so that s seven out of eight days in the middle ofjuly where we ll see action. and the truth is, the hard truth is, it is patients that are paying the price. she s calling on both the health secretary and the u
it s really been showing the strain for staff, with one in ten posts empty, and for patients, with records of numbers of people on waiting lists for treatment. the woman in charge of running the nhs today insisted things were on the right track. the nhs today insisted things almost all our indicators actually are going in the right direction at the moment. but what we have to recognise. with more people waiting than ever before and fewer people treated, even though you ve got bigger budgets? so, numbers of patients, you re absolutely right, that s going up, and we ve always said, that was going to get bigger before it came down. but the longest waits are reducing and are reducing consistently. what do we want? fair pay! months of strike action have led to more than 500,000 appointments being rescheduled. nurses have now ended their strikes, butjunior doctors are set to walk out again later this month for five days. and consultants will now strike, too, just a few days later. for the