Senior hospital docs in England have voted to strike for 2 days subsequent month, the British Medical Association has stated.
The consultants will stroll out on Thursday the twentieth and Friday the twenty first of July.
Members had been requested to vote on “Christmas Day levels of care”, the medical union stated.
Christmas-like cowl means the motion will probably be “safe and effective”, it claimed.
The BMA admitted, nonetheless, that whereas emergency care will nonetheless be supplied, elective or non-emergency work will probably be cancelled.
Junior docs have already stated they’re planning to strike from 13 to 18 July.
It implies that for seven days subsequent month, common appointments and pre-planned operations will probably be disrupted.
There was a excessive turnout for the consultants’ vote on industrial motion – 71.08%.
Almost 21,000 medics voted sure – a majority of simply over 86%.
“This result demonstrates the strength of feeling among consultants,” the BMA stated, including that since 2008/09 the “real terms take-home pay of consultants in England has been cut by 35%”.
It went on: “And that is before the impact of this year’s soaring inflation. This results in a huge loss of earnings during a consultant’s working life. It also impacts the value of their pension and massively reduces their income throughout retirement.”
Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, stated: “Consultants don’t want to have to take industrial action, but have been left with no option in the face of a government that continues to cut our pay year after year.”
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The medical union hit out on the situation of the well being service, too, saying: “Working in the NHS over the last fifteen years has become more challenging, more stressful, and more demanding.
“There is totally no justification for the consultants of at present being valued lower than they had been within the current previous.
“As it stands, consultants are effectively expected to work until May without pay every year.”
The results of the strike poll “sends a clear sign to government that our pay must be fixed now and for the future”, the union stated.
“Unless ministers come back to us with a credible offer, we plan to call 48 hours of action from 7am on Thursday 20 July.”
Earlier, it was introduced that Nurses’ strikes are to finish in England after the occupation’s largest union did not safe sufficient votes to hold out additional motion.
Source: information.sky.com”