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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has criticised residents doctors for going on strike again, saying it is costing the NHS £300 million. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This government has done everything we can to negotiate a deal in good faith against the constraints we have with
00:07the public finances, our responsibility to other NHS staff and our responsibility to taxpayers.
00:13And against that backdrop, I think it is completely unreasonable for the BMA to have taken their members out on
00:21strike again this week, causing untold disruption, £300 million in cost to the NHS, and at the same time as
00:31only offering their own staff a 2.75% pay rise, which is why they've walked out on strike. There's
00:39a word for that.
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