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Only one in three people support doctors’ plans To stage five days of debraying later this month, a new survey revealed As tens of thousands of patients across the country face operations and meetings.
Meanwhile, almost half of those questioned (49%) oppose the planned industrial action called by the British medical associationrevealed a Yougov investigation.
The figures showed a marked drop in support compared to the previous industrial action. When the doctors were on strike for the last time, just before the general elections of last year, Yougov noted that the action was supported by 59% of the public and opposed 36%.
This comes as a former minister of the Labor Cabinet and head of the Union warned that the BMA had chosen the bad battle with the government and told the Secretary of Health Wes Street It was a fight he had to win.
Johnsonwho was secretary of health For two years under Tony Blair And who used to direct a union himself, said TIt is independent: “This has all the signs of the BMA leading their troops to a battle that they cannot win – and should not either, the government has honored the recommendations for the revision of wages in full after having settled the dispute from last year immediately after taking up its duties.
“I doubt that there is someone with a union experience who thinks that the BMA has chosen the right field on which going to war with the government. This is a battle that Wes Stting must win,” he added.
Medicine chiefs have also warned resident doctors, as junior doctors are now known, that they can “never recover” patient confidence if they take back strike.
Mr. Streting told junior doctors that after a salary increase of 28.9% last year when the Labor Party entered the government, the public would not understand why “you would always make a strike, and no longer.”
But the The new BMA chief said that The payment request of 29% of resident doctors is “non -negotiable” and warned strikes could last for years.
Dr. Tom Dolphin also said that demand was both reasonable and easily affordable for the NHS.
He said that the union would not negotiate or do not accept a figure below 29%, because it is the extent of the loss of real earnings that doctors have said that doctors since 2008 – a salary they wish to be restored entirely.
Former Minister of Conservative Health Steve Brine Warned that strikes had the potential to “undo the property” which had been broken down on the reduction of NHS waiting lists.
Up to 50,000 resident doctors are expected to join the 7 a.m. on July 25 at 7 a.m. on July 30.
About 1.5 million operations and appointments had to be canceled during the last vague industrial action by junior doctors.
Mr. Streting urged the BMA to “listen to the public”. He said: “Instead of rushing on this unreasonable path, the BMA must take a break and reflect on the real risk that people lose confidence in doctors and the damage that would cause our NHS and the entire medical profession.”
Lord Darzi of Denham, a surgeon who led an overwhelming examination of the NHS last year, said: “Doctors have a special place in society. Public confidence in doctors is won, not guaranteed. I fear that he can never recover if the BMA goes ahead with strikes that are clearly unjustifiable.”
Professor Sir Stephen powerThe National Medical Director of NHS in England, also said that doctors should consider “how difficult it could be to recover public confidence”.
