Give me a 35 per cent pay rise or I’ll dump my job in the NHS and go and work in Canada. That, in as many words, is what Dr Rob Laurenson, co-chair of the BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee told us this week. To which the obvious reply is: please do. How soon will you be going, and can we have a whip-round and chip in to pay your one-way air fare? Oh, and can you take your trainee anaesthetist sidekick, Dr Vivek Trivedi, with you? Britain will be better off without a pair of entitled would-be trots r
An Indian-origin medic and co-chair of the medical association's junior doctors' panel on Wednesday called on the UK government to get around the negotiating table as his colleagues began a six-day strike.
The year will be barely three days old when junior doctors stage the longest walkout in NHS history. For six days, just as hospitals, ambulance services and GP surgeries enter their busiest period, and less than two weeks after the last walkout, thousands of junior doctors will go on strike.