00:00With the resident doctors dispute, we came into government, they had a 28.9% pay rise,
00:06one of the first things we did as a Labour government, one of the first things I did as
00:09health secretary. They then went out on strike before Christmas, before a pay recommendation
00:14was even made by the pay review body. We have offered them a 4.9% average pay rise,
00:20that's higher than has been recommended by the pay review body. We've promised thousands more
00:25training places and we've offered to cancel their and reimburse their exam fees that which
00:29costs doctors thousands and the BMA have rejected that. I don't pretend to have solved all of the
00:34problems that resident doctors are facing in less than two years in government but I'd like the BMA
00:38to stop pretending that we could have solved all their problems. Doctors are important but they
00:43are part of an NHS workforce of one and a half million people, many of whom are never paid as
00:48much as the lowest paid doctors and the NHS is one of our most important public services but it's not
00:53the only one. We are trying to turn this country around, we're beginning to see signs of Britain
00:58moving in the right direction in our economy, in our public services. We do need the BMA
01:03to be reasonable and to accept that there is only so much this Labour government can do
01:08so quickly. They've been the standout winners of the public sector so far. We're making improvements
01:14in the NHS despite the doctor strikes. We've been making even more progress if they were rowing
01:18with us rather than working against us.
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