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Co-Chair of BMA Dr Melissa Ryan has said resident doctors need the Health Secretary and the government to ''negotiate properly and give an offer''. It comes as thousands of resident doctors are set to walk out from 7am on Friday for five days. The public have been urged to keep coming forward for NHS care during the walkout. GP surgeries will open as usual and urgent care and A&E will continue to be available, alongside 111, NHS England said. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Resident doctors have seen their pay eroded by about 21% on 2008 levels.
00:05It's been eroding slowly over 17 years, and what we're asking for is to have that pay erosion reversed.
00:11So what we're really asking for is for a first-year doctor to go from roughly £18.60 an hour up to less than 23% an hour.
00:20And we think that this is something that the public will actually support, because that will allow doctors to stay in the NHS.
00:29And patients are saying all the time that they can't get doctor's appointments.
00:34We're short-staffed. The reason that doctors are leaving is because of pay and conditions.
00:39Nobody wants to be on strike. We don't have to have a single day of strike action.
00:44What we need is a government who's willing to actually negotiate properly and give an offer.
00:48Nobody's asking for any of the money to be given on one day or one year.
00:54We want a pathway to restore our pay, but in order to get there, we need Mr Streeting.
00:59We need the government to come and actually give us an offer.
01:03If he was to call me on Saturday or Sunday morning and say,
01:07I've got a credible offer for you. Let's talk about it. Let's go forward.
01:10There's always the potential to call off any strike action.
01:12It doesn't need to go on for years, but what we need is action from them, not just empty promises.
01:18All right.
01:19All right.
01:20All right.
01:25Here we go.
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