Streeting says pay offer to doctors is 'good deal'

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting appeals to doctors to accept the government's latest pay offer and avoid strikes ahead of Christmas saying. He promises, "we will bring forward emergency legislation that will mean that UK doctors get first priority on those training places".    Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00In order to avoid the enormous damage and risk that would come with strikes ahead of Christmas,

00:07we've been talking to the BMA to make them an offer that would deal with what I think are

00:14legitimate concerns that doctors have about the lack of training places to apply to.

00:20So we're announcing that we will bring forward emergency legislation that will mean that UK

00:27doctors get first priority on those training places. And we're also proposing to increase the

00:34number of specialty training places that we'd offered from an extra 1,000 to an extra 4,000,

00:42meaning that the competition for training places will go from around four doctors for every one

00:49training place to less than two to one, which I think any one of us would appreciate in terms of

00:54applying for any sort of job or training place is a good offer.

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