Junior doctors hold the line as NHS chief hints government may blink first
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, as they take to picket lines for six days during their continuing dispute over pay, January 3, 2024
JUNIOR doctors held the line today as an NHS leader hinted that ministers may blink first under increasing pressure from the British Medical Association’s (BMA) unprecedented six-day strike.
As well-wishers brought tea and cake to medics picketing up and down the country, union leaders’ carrot and stick calls for “a journey towards restoration” of their pay appeared to be forcing government back to the negotiating table.
Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation which represents NHS Trusts, told Radio 4’s the World at One that he thought that there is “the basis now for progress” towards a resolution of the dispute.
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