Expansion of doctors’ strike in the UK.
Following the call of doctors in England to carry out the longest strike in their history, their counterparts in Wales, one of the countries under the British umbrella, they were also planned to carry out a three-day strike in the New Year.
Doctors in Wales, a part of the United Kingdom, will hold a 72-hour strike in early 2024 to protest their pay and working conditions.
Welsh GPs, who are members of the British Medical Association (BMA), will go on strike from 15 January 2024 in response to a long-running dispute with UK authorities over their pay.
This union announced that almost all the general doctors of this union (98 percent) supported the implementation of this strike.
According to the news agency “Press Association”, more than 3,000 doctors will probably stop working in hospitals in Wales and general surgery centers in this country to participate in this strike.
The British Medical Association announced that the General Practitioners Committee of this union decided to hold a vote among its members to implement a strike after receiving a five percent salary increase proposal from the authorities in August. The union believes the proposed pay rise is the worst in the UK and one percent less than the salary review body’s proposed rates for specialist doctors and dentists.
In the middle of December, general practitioners under the British Medical Association in England also announced the longest medical strike in the history of the British National Health Service (NHS) organization after the union negotiated with the London government over salary increases and improved conditions. The career of these doctors failed.
Representatives of this union held five weeks of talks with the London government to resolve the dispute over doctors’ salaries.
The British Medical Association later announced that the Department of Health and Social Care had failed to develop a suitable proposal to end the protesting doctors’ strikes.
The General Practitioners Committee of the British Medical Association then unanimously approved the plan to hold strikes in December and January.
According to this plan, these doctors will go on strike from seven in the morning on December 20 (December 29) to seven in the morning on December 23 and also from seven in the morning on January 3, 2024, to January 9. They will play nationwide in England.
The union announced that the strike, which will be implemented for six full days in January, will mark the longest period of strike by doctors in the history of the National Health Service.