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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has appealed to resident doctors working in the NHS to "ignore the BMA strike" this week, as the Health Service struggles under the pressure of a wave of 'superflu'. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It is at this moment of maximum danger that the BMA has chosen to go ahead with Christmas strikes
00:06when it will inflict the greatest level of damage on the NHS.
00:10The BMA said this dispute was about pay, but we gave them a 28.9% pay rise.
00:16Then they said it was also about jobs, so we offered a deal to halve the competition for jobs to less than two applicants per post.
00:24It is now clear what these strikes are really about.
00:27The BMA's fantasy demand for another 26% pay rise, on top of the 28.9% they have already received.
00:37I also offered to extend the BMA's strike mandate so they could postpone this action and go ahead once flu has subsided.
00:46The fact they also rejected that offer shows a shocking disregard for patient safety.
00:52Since this strike represents a different magnitude of risk to previous industrial action,
00:57I am appealing to ordinary resident doctors to ignore the BMA's strike and go to work this week.
01:04Abandoning patients in their hour of greatest need goes against everything a career in medicine is meant to be about.
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