"We just want them to come to the table in an honest and meaningfully meaningful way. "Where we go forward is, of course, reserving the right for further industrial action if the Government doesn't negotiate with us, but that's all we want them to do. Speaking to the PA news agency, he said: "Strikes are by nature designed to be disruptive, to put pressure on the Government to come to the table to ultimately work towards an end to this dispute. In separate remarks, Dr Trivedi said junior doctors will "reserve the right" to conduct more strikes unless the Government enters negotiations to end the dispute over pay, adding no counter-offer had been made by ministers. "We've offered multiple dates to Mr Barclay to try and meet and he's only met us twice, he didn't have a mandate to negotiate once, and didn't even give us an offer the second time," he said. "All we're asking is for a doctor who's paid £14 an hour to be paid £19 an hour, so it's not a tall ask. Professor Sir Stephen Powis, the National medical director of NHS England, said the "unparalleled" disruption is likely to last weeks with hospitals told to reschedule cancelled appointments as soon as possible.ĭr Vivek Trivedi told BBC Breakfast: "This uplift that we're asking for is only to reverse the pay cuts that we've had, doctors have had more than a 26 per cent real-terms pay cut over the last 15 years. It comes as doctors across England began a four-day strike which threatens to become the most troublesome in NHS history. The Government has said the 35 per cent figure is unaffordable. Calls by junior doctors for a 35 per cent pay increase are not a "tall ask", the British Medical Association (BMA) has insisted, as medics walked out for the first of four days of strike action.ĭr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chairman of the BMA junior doctors' committee, said industrial action could be suspended if Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, approached negotiations with a "credible offer".
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