Low Pay Keeps the Doctors Away
50,000 junior doctors are on strike today over a 26% cut to their real pay since 2008. This is a fight for the future of the NHS — a fight they won’t back down from anytime soon.
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Dr Vivek Trivedi is co-chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Committee.
50,000 junior doctors are on strike today over a 26% cut to their real pay since 2008. This is a fight for the future of the NHS — a fight they won’t back down from anytime soon.
Underpaid, overworked, and struggling to hold up a health service in collapse: Dr Vivek Trivedi from the BMA talks to Tribune about the exodus of staff from the NHS – and why their strike is a fight to save the health service.