Doctors are holding patients to “ransom” by going on strike, the Health Secretary has said.Wes Streeting told LBC radio the five-day resident doctors’ strike in England is “going to set us back” as he accused British Medical Association (BMA) “activists” of “damaging” NHS recovery.
00:00Strike should be a last resort. And I'm sorry, but when you say, I don't want to be out on strike today. Yes, you do, because you have made that choice. You have done so having had a 28.9% pay rise, the highest in the public sector two years in a row. And on those things that you've just mentioned, you say, they take time. Yes, they do, because it is complicated.
00:24So to hold patience to ransom and to be out on strike setting back the NHS because you don't think we're going fast enough and because the leadership of your union are not honest enough that some of this change takes time is extremely irresponsible. It is extremely unnecessary.
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