Streeting: NHS strikes inflicting 'pain and misery' on patie

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Labour's Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that strikes by NHS resident doctors, led by the British Medical Association (BMA), are inflicting "pain and misery" on patients. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00With the 28.9% pay rise that we gave to resident doctors, this government was

00:05showing we were different from our predecessors, that we recognised the

00:09pressures that many of these early career doctors were facing in their

00:13pockets, and they've had the highest pay rise in the public sector two years in

00:17a row. I don't regret that. What I do think is outrageous is that after that

00:22the BMA have still gone out on strike action, inflicting pain and misery on

00:28patients and threatening to set back all the progress we've been making in the

00:31NHS. So my message to patients today is we are pulling out all the stops in the

00:36coming days to minimise disruption, but there will still be disruption.

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