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Resident doctors’ pay demands won’t get the public on side | Letters

Dr Ieuan Davies urges junior doctors to highlight more reasonable issues such as their debt and compulsory overtime. Plus letters from Prof Anthony Seaton, Martin Empson and Dr Nicholas RoseI agree with Wes Streeting that the forthcoming five-day strike by resident doctors in England is “completely unreasonable” (Resident doctors accused of ‘greedy’ pay demands before Streeting talks, 17 July). It is less than a year since their last pay dispute was settled, following a bitter war that lasted 18 months. Patient care suffered again and again.Tactically propagated via targeted social media, this conflict will rapidly spread across borders to the devolved nations. Therefore we in Wales must also anticipate a cruel and chaotic disruption to NHS care by the autumn. Continue reading...

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