The Government is offering a 5.4 per cent increase as of August, and public opinion is, according to a YouGov poll this week, is turning against them.
In May this year, as the recommendations from pay review bodies were submitted, the Government was generous: consultant doctors, dentists, teachers and prison officers in England were awarded a four per cent increase, NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts, including nurses and midwives, received 3.6 per cent, the armed forces were handed 4.5 per cent and civil servants have been awarded 3.25 per cent.
Wes Streeting has warned the NHS faces a challenging few days during the doctors strike (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu/Getty)You could be forgiven for wondering whose salary is not, but see things through the BMA’s eyes for a moment: by striking 11 times in two years, they wrung a 22 per cent increase out of the government, and lots of other public sector workers have won higher pay from the current administration. Why would resident doctors not reach for the stars?
The party was born in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee, an alliance of unions and other socialist organisations. These are Labour’s people, woven into the fabric of the party, and it was always likely that the public sector unions in particular, Unison and Unite, would find a sympathetic ear on matters of pay. The BMA is simply following in their footsteps.
“The BMA leadership’s decision to not even consider postponing these strikes will place an enormous burden on their colleagues, and hit the recovery we can all see our health service is making.”
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Not necessarily. The government is struggling badly, and there is a refrain heard again and again: people want change. They want results.
While substantial sums of money are being poured into the colander, which is the NHS, Streeting also needs to be seen as an agent of change, a disruptor. Vested interests are now targets for populist ire.
So far, Streeting has played the situation well, aligning himself firmly with patients waiting for operations and anxious families, but he has also managed a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger attitude towards the striking medics.
He is a deft politician, and he can see which side he needs to be on — and it is no longer that of the resident doctors. The BMA may have done him a considerable service.
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