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16.06.2023 - 04:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The war within the NHS wears on, as strikes pass the sixth month mark. Paramedics, nurses, physiotherapists, hospital staff have all walked out over the course of the last year.
But while many among that list were encouraged to accept a pay deal offered by the government, leading to a fragile suspension of strikes, it is doctors who are continuing industrial action.
Today, chants rang out across the city centre as doctors from across the north west gathered outside the Manchester Central Convention Centre to rally behind their campaign - not for a pay rise, they claim, but for a ‘pay restoration’. The doctors chose the day to challenge Health Secretary, Steve Barclary, who was expected to be inside the centre giving a speech to NHS leaders at the same time.
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Junior doctors, in their thousands, have now staged multiple rounds of strike action. Talks between the British Medical Association (BMA), the union representing hospital doctors, and the government are understood to be fraught and frosty.
Doctors in their droves wound their way from the Manchester Royal Infirmary to the Central Convention Centre to protest for better wages and conditions this afternoon (June 15). Inside the convention centre sat the most senior NHS leaders, including boss Amanda Pritchard, for the NHS ConfedExpo.
The government calls the BMA’s demand for ‘pay restoration’ - a hike of 35 per cent - ‘unreasonable’, offering a five per cent rise instead. Meanwhile, the BMA continues to be firm in its message that the 35 per cent would only return their pay to its 2008 levels.
Since then, doctors claim, they have faced a real terms pay cut each year. Accepting the five
Netta is back, and it’s “Everything”!
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