Strike doctors told: You're shooting yourself in the foot

HEALTH Secretary Wes Streeting warned resident doctors they are “shooting themselves in the foot” as he urged them to call off the strike starting tomorrow.

- BY JONATHAN WALKER Whitehall Editor

In a last-ditch plea to the British Medical Association, he said industrial action would cost the NHS £250million and force him to cut planned investment.

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Mr Streeting spoke as the BMA vowed to press ahead with the five-day walkout. Resident doctors are objecting to what they say is a lack of training places and are demanding a 26% pay rise.

According to the Patients Association, the strikes at the start of the flu season “will create a cascade of delays extending well into the new year”.