Coutinho: Pre-Christmas strikes will be ‘horrific’

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Claire Coutinho, shadow energy secretary, expresses concern as doctors consider strike action in the run-up to Christmas saying it will be “horrific” for patients.  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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00:00Well I hope the strikes are going to be called off. I think pre-Christmas strikes when we know

00:03that there's a very bad flu going around and we know that the NHS will be under pressure I think

00:08it'll be a horrific thing for patients and actually if you look at what's happened with the BMA

00:12doctors got a 29% pay rise last year and actually I think the government was wrong not to ask for

00:18anything in return for patients. We know that productivity in the NHS has been falling which

00:23means more and more money is going in and patients are getting less and less and I think this year

00:28it's right that the BMA is taken on they've become incredibly militant and we do need to put patients

00:33first.

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