The well being secretary has accused NHS strikes of turning into “more and more a politically motivated strike in opposition to the federal government”.
Steve Barclay instructed TalkTV this morning that the federal government has made plain its place on accepting the pay evaluate suggestions in full, urging junior medical doctors and their representatives within the British Medical Affiliation to simply accept the provide.
He stated: “We’ve accepted in full the suggestions on the impartial pay evaluate physique course of. What meaning for junior medical doctors beginning this summer time is a pay rise of 10.3 per cent the typical enhance for junior medical doctors is 8.8 per cent. And we expect that’s the proper method.
“We’ve additionally listened to the BMA’s request extra broadly on issues like adjustments to pensions for consultants, the place a massively beneficiant provide implies that consultants who retire at 65 will get a pension of over 70,000 kilos a yr”
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He added: “It’s harming sufferers for the BMA right this moment what appears to be more and more a politically motivated strike in opposition to the federal government and doesn’t recognise the truth that junior medical doctors are getting a mean of 8.8% by way of a pay rise this yr”
It comes as NHS week will get underway, per week by which the federal government will focus within the well being service and look to place stress on the Labour administration in Wales.
Marking the start of NHS week, two-thirds of NHS most cancers ready time targets are anticipated to be scrapped in England, in a transfer the well being service says goals to catch cancers earlier.
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has made chopping ready lists one in all his 5 priorities.
Nonetheless, the general variety of sufferers ready for remedy in England rose from 7.47 million in Could to 7.57 million in June.
It’s the highest determine recorded within the knowledge sequence, which started in August 2007, and an increase of 1.4% on the earlier excessive recorded in Could this yr (7,472,052).
In keeping with the most recent figures, 59.2% of most cancers sufferers in England who had their first remedy in June after an pressing GP referral had waited lower than two months.
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08.10 am — Well being secretary accuses junior medical doctors strikes of turning into “more and more a politically motivated strike in opposition to the federal government”.
He instructed TalkTV: “We’ve accepted in full the suggestions on the impartial pay evaluate physique course of. What meaning for junior medical doctors beginning this summer time is a pay rise of 10.3 per cent the typical enhance for junior medical doctors is 8.8 per cent. And we expect that’s the proper method.
“We’ve additionally listened to the BMA’s request extra broadly on issues like adjustments to pensions for consultants, the place a massively beneficiant provide implies that consultants who retire at 65 will get a pension of over 70,000 kilos a yr”
He added: “It’s harming sufferers for the BMA right this moment what appears to be more and more a politically motivated strike in opposition to the federal government and doesn’t recognise the truth that junior medical doctors are getting a mean of 8.8% by way of a pay rise this yr”
8.05 am — Requested about authorities assaults on Labour’s administration of the NHS in Wales, shadow schooling secretary Bridget Phillipson instructed Sky Information yesterday:
“I feel the final person who anybody wants a lecture from on the way to handle the NHS is Steve Barclay. I imply, that is the person that has presided over the worst strikes in NHS historical past, the place we’ve bought file ready occasions proper throughout our NHS the place folks can’t get to see a GP in relation to ready for surgical procedure of remedy”
She added: “The finances for the Welsh authorities, in fact, is decided in Westminster, and that in fact constrains what they’ll and may’t do, however below the final Labour authorities in Wales, what we noticed we had a authorities in Westminster, a Labour authorities in Westminster, working with a Labour authorities in Wales, was an enormous enchancment in relation to affected person satisfaction, ready occasions and entry to GPs”.
8.00 am — Labour shadow well being secretary Wes Streeting accused the Conservatives of making a most cancers care disaster and leaving sufferers ready “dangerously lengthy” in an article for the Sunday Times.
“Sunak ought to concentrate on chopping ready occasions, not chopping requirements for sufferers”, he stated.
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- The federal government begins NHS week with an announcement on most cancers ready time goal. Two-thirds of NHS most cancers ready time targets at the moment are anticipated to be scrapped in England, in a transfer the well being service says goals to catch cancers earlier.
- Well being secretary Steve Barclay is touring media studios to speak up the plan as ministers plan to double down on assaults over Labour’s administration of the NHS in Wales
- In the meantime, Keir Starmer is off to Scotland, the place he and Scottish Labour chief Anas Sarwar will go to a distillery close to Edinburgh. The journey is meant to debate the significance of the whisky business to the UK financial system and the impression of the price of residing disaster.
- The Labour chief will probably be making feedback to the media at round 10 a.m.
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