The next government and junior doctors must “sit down and work it out” with a view to ending strikes, former doctor and author Adam Kay has urged. Mr Kay, who turned his collection of diary entries during his medical training into bestselling book This Is Going To Hurt, which was later adapted into a TV miniseries, warned medics are leaving the UK for better prospects elsewhere. “My support is is absolutely there for every single NHS worker to get fair pay,” he told the PA news agency.
“They’ve talked about pay equality or pay restoration rather than pay rise, because it just feels unfair on a basic level. “If I go on Twitter, and I support the junior doctors, some Twitter contrarian will reply to say, ‘well, if you don’t like it, leave’, and that’s exactly the problem, because people are leaving. “The NHS isn’t its buildings and its CT scanners and its bedpans, the NHS is the people who work there.
And there will get a point where the NHS cannot function. Adam Kay backs a 10-year, £40 million programme to bolster innovation in the NHS (Suzan Moore/PA) The comments come as junior doctors in England prepare to go on strike. Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) will walk out at 7am on June 27 until 7am on July 2, just days before the General Election.
Mr Kay called on the next government to sit down with unions and make an agreement to end the dispute. He told PA: “Hopefully, the change of guards, which is almost inevitably coming in in .
