The doctors union has rejected NHS claims that less than a third of resident doctors participated in strike action and that 93% of planned operations proceeded as scheduled. NHS England reported care for an estimated 10,000 more patients during the recent strike compared to last year's event. The British Medical Association disputes this, citing complex scheduling as a factor making participation tracking difficult. A decrease of 7.5% in participation in the recent strike compared to previous actions was noted, while a pay raise of 29% is being demanded by resident doctors.
A majority of resident doctors didn't vote for strike action and data shows that less than a third of residents took part. I want to thank those resident doctors who went to work for their commitment to their patients and to our shared mission to rebuild the NHS.
NHS England's claim that the majority of England's 77,000 resident doctors chose to join the NHS-wide effort to keep the services open' requires a huge stretch of the imagination, given it is almost impossible to know the exact number of residents working on any given day.
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