![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/newest-junior-doctors-join-picket-lines-less-than-a-fortnight-after-starting-nhs-jobs/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Junior-Doctors-Begin-Four-Day-Strike-Over-Pay-and-Conditions.jpg&description=Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted there will be no negotiations on pay for medics in England as it emerged the bitter dispute has already cost the NHS £1billion Junior doctors have begun their fifth round of strikes with some newly qualified joining picket lines just days after starting their first NHS jobs. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted there will be no negotiations on pay for medics in England as it emerged the bitter dispute has already cost the NHS £1billion. Foundation Year 1 doctors started their first roles after medical school on Wednesday August 2 - just nine days ago. Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, said: "We are now at the stage where a whole new cohort of junior doctors is entering the profession, only to be immediately given no choice by the Government but to go on strike for their future. "The Government should be ashamed that this is the state of the profession they are presenting to our newest doctors. If they want a health service that retains this talent for decades to come, they need to come to the table - not in weeks, not in months, but today. This dispute should never have gone on so long." Dr Majd Al Bakry, 24, said most medical students graduate with £100,000 of debt. He said: "We are actually the ones the most affected because we still have many, many years to go in our careers and the pay cuts that we're facing will compound on us the most. "I think everyone in the system is kind of fed up. And this is affecting everyone, both financially, their mental health and their productivity, and this, in a way, compromises patient safety. We have been to medical school for five or six years on average, which prepares us for the job. But when we're understaffed, it becomes really challenging when you have just started working when we have to see many patients more than we would be expected to really care for." The BMA says doctors' pay has fallen by around a third in real terms){kind=link}
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted there will be no negotiations on pay for medics in England as it emerged the bitter dispute has already cost the NHS £1billion
Junior doctors have begun their fifth round of strikes with some newly qualified joining picket lines just days after starting their first NHS jobs.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted there will be no negotiations on pay for medics in England as it emerged the bitter dispute has already cost the NHS £1billion. Foundation Year 1 doctors started their first roles after medical school on Wednesday August 2 – just nine days ago.
Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said: “We are now at the stage where a whole new cohort of junior doctors is entering the profession, only to be immediately given no choice by the Government but to go on strike for their future.
“The Government should be ashamed that this is the state of the profession they are presenting to our newest doctors. If they want a health service that retains this talent for decades to come, they need to come to the table – not in weeks, not in months, but today. This dispute should never have gone on so long.”