After handing out a pay rise to the British Medical Association’s junior doctors the Health Secretary says he is now in conversations with other unions representing medical staff. More handouts on the way…
Yesterday’s pay rise means starting salaries for resident doctors will go £38,831 to £41,226. Top-level junior doctors will get £80,730 salaries plus additional hours which will take them above £100,000…
James Murray was asked about other medical staff – now incentivised to strike – on GB News:
“Well, look, I’m having conversations with the unions representing other work forces in the NHS as well, because they do such an important job – whether that’s nurses, paramedics, porters, people right across the NHS and make the NHS what it is. And I want to keep having those conversations to support all staff.”
Murray claimed the BMA handout “means that we can move forward and focus on working together with resident doctors um to improve the quality of care for patients right across the NHS and focus on making the NHS stronger for the future.” Until they strike again along with all the other staff…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.