BMA offers strike pause for extended negotiations

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The British Medical Association has offered to call off a planned strike by junior doctors later this month if NHS bosses give permission for further time for negotiations. In a letter to Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of NHS Employers, the BMA chairman of council, Professor Philip Banfield, has asked him to agree to the extension, which he can do on behalf of hospital trusts. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 We wrote to the Secretary of State and NHS employers to ask for an extension, because

00:05 we thought that was the quickest way of getting strikes called off. Obviously, if that extension

00:12 was granted, it would free up space for negotiation to continue. At a point in which the mood

00:20 of government is that it wants to find a resolution to this dispute, we can only take that uncertainty

00:36 so far. There is no further credible offer being tabled. We cannot run on empty promises

00:45 forever. We are losing doctors abroad. We felt duty-bound to do whatever it would take

00:54 to try and get this action called off in order to get a once-and-for-all solution to these

01:01 disputes.

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