Introduction to the Dispute
The five-day doctor strike in England has ended, but it is clear that this dispute – 12 strikes and counting – is far from over. Dr. Shivam Sharma, who joined one of the last strikes of the strike before it ended on Wednesday at 7:00 a.m., feels disappointed by the health secretary. When Labor came to power, they quickly managed to complete a deal with the British Medical Association (BMA) and to give them additional money and promise to improve working conditions.
The Doctors’ Perspective
The doctors took this as a sign that the trip to restore the salary was in sight in 2008, but according to BMA, a hike of the salary on the previous earlier increases was still required. Dr. Sharma, who is in his training in child and adolescent psychiatry for six years, says that his years as a local doctor, the new name for junior doctors, are harder than they should have been. In his early years, he confronted regular rotations through various jobs in the West Midlands. They can be published anywhere in large geographical areas, and they have little control over their rotas, people who are missing weddings and important family events.
Financial Burden
In September, Dr. Sharma was sitting an exam that will return him more than £1,000. This is only for an exam, and it can cost them tens of thousands of pounds in the course of their training. The position of the BMA remains that the best way to solve this dispute is by increasing the payment further. But with the government not revised for this year, attention can no longer be revised to unpaid problems (local doctors achieve an average of 5.4%).
Negotiation Breakdown
During five days of discussions that collapsed on Tuesday last week, a number of topics were discussed, including exams, career progress, and the frequency of jobs that can take place for some every four months. The BMA wanted to add the writing of student loans (medical students can collect debts of £100,000), although the government refused to look at this.
Rising Tensions
After the clock ticks, the dispute became violent when the BMA announced that its first strike would continue under Labor. The health secretary accused the BMA of being ruthless and showing "complete contempt" for patients. The union replied with the reaction that they lost confidence in one of the promises. The tensions between NHS England and the Union on Monday, and the health leaders criticized the "hardline" approach of the BMA to block inquiries to enable doctors to work to deal with emergencies.
A Glimmer of Hope
Sometimes a return to the negotiating table seemed almost impossible, but at the end of the strike, both sides showed signs of softening. Senior sources at the BMA have spoken of not wanting to get into a cycle of strikes and no conversations, as in the past few months of the Tory government – there were 11 strikes of 16 months. They mention that "breathing space" will be created for further negotiations in the coming days and weeks.
Finding a Solution
In the meantime, those who want to make a deal near road stress that he wants to do, although it is still disappointed that the union has at least not postponed this strike to continue the conversations. And in an explanation that matches the end of the strike, the health secretary said: "My door is open to resume the conversations that we had last week." However, if you can get around the table, there are enough similarities so that a deal is to be achieved, since the BMA wishes more salary increases and the government is adamant. This is not an option?
Expert Opinion
"It will not be easy," says Dr. Billy Palmer, expert for NHS employees at the Nuffield Trust Think-Tank. "This split situation demands doctors and the wider NHS equally tribute." He says that in addition to wages, storage and well-being are "real problems", but he believes that a number of individual changes could lead to a potentially significant influence. In addition to the costs for triggers such as examination fees and the less brutal rotation and rotation systems, he has other suggestions. This includes the repayment holidays of student loans so that the doctors can be delayed, without interest until they earn more.
Possible Solutions
He also mentions the need to combat the lack of special jobs into which local doctors go down after the first two years of training. Numbers from the BMA show that more than 30,000 doctors followed 10,000 contributions this year. In addition, he warns that the government may still have to tackle a certain salary problem, which indicates the anomaly, which means that doctors earn less as doctors in the first year. Would everything be enough to solve this? Maybe, he says, but as with everything in this long-term argument, there are no guarantees.
