Six well known senior clinicians have urged resident doctors to reject a call from the BMA for strike action over pay, arguing that such action would be futile and damaging.
A letter signed by Clare Gerada, former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and who also served on the BMA’s council, and John Oldham, a health adviser to several governments, cautions against the profession taking industrial action.1
Last month the BMA sent ballot papers to its resident doctor members asking them to vote on whether or not they wanted to take industrial action after the government’s announcement of a pay award for these doctors of an average 5.4% rise (made up …
