The HCSA president, Dr Naru Narayanan, criticised the pay and workloads for junior doctors – qualified doctors who are in clinical training with up to eight years’ experience as a hospital doctor or up to three years’ experience in general practice. The union has announced the strike will be held on Wednesday 15 March. “Just to go back to delivering non-pandemic health care is going to be a huge challenge,” he said.Ī ballot of junior doctors held by the HCSA has already returned an unprecedented 97% “yes” vote for a strike by members, on 75% turnout of the 531 members eligible to vote. “If you stretch people beyond their resilience they won’t be there when you need them,” he said.įarrar said that coping in an epidemic wears health workers down as the months and years go by and that “people are leaving those professions”. As you can see from the strikes, morale and resilience is very thin.”įarrar also raised concerns about what should happen if another crisis struck. Further strikes next month have been announced by the Royal College of Nursing and ambulance workers represented by Unite and GMB.įarrar said: “I think we have to address the morale, staffing, the training, everything from public health physicians to care workers, to doctors and nurses and physios and everybody in between because there’s very little spare capacity in any system globally. Junior doctors are the latest NHS staff to ballot for industrial action, with nurses, ambulance staff, physiotherapists and midwives among those who have already gone on strike. Prof Philip Banfield, the BMA’s chair of council, said Rishi Sunak and the health secretary, Steve Barclay, were “standing on the precipice of an historic mistake”. They are absolutely shattered.”įarrar’s comments come as thousands of ambulance workers in the GMB and Unite unions go on strike on Monday in their dispute over pay and staffing, and the British Medical Association accused the government of reckless behaviour ahead of a strike ballot result by junior doctors. “The resilience of healthcare workers, broadly defined from ambulance drivers to nurses to doctors, to care workers in social care, etc. It’s certainly true in this country,” he said. “This is a global issue, which I think is hugely concerning.
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