Junior and senior doctors in England are set to strike together for the first time in NHS history later this month, reducing health services to Christmas Day levels of care for four days in September and October., Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting, addressed the strike action noting his concern regarding the situation.
Reflecting on the proposed industrial action, the Shadow Health Secretary said: "We have an extraordinary spectacle of nurses, junior doctors and now consultants all taking strike action because the government have not listened, treated them with respect and even sat down to negotiate." Noting how he would resolve the ongoing pay dispute, the shadow cabinet minister added: "I want to resolve this dispute through negotiation as I'm desperately anxious about whether these strikes go ahead."
In a message for the Prime Minister, he stated: "I'll just say to Rishi Sunak, you haven't got a hope in hell's chance of delivering the pledge you made to the country to cut NHS waiting lists if you are ignoring the doctors and sending them out on strike, get round the table."There's nothing more important for patients than resolving these NHS strikes."