"The alternative is strikes continue to hold back the NHS's recovery, the costs of industrial action slow down investment in new technology, equipment and additional specialty places, the changes that we all agree need to be made are blocked, and patients continue to be failed. From there, the public will conclude that Labour has failed on the NHS and they will elect a Reform government instead a party that has openly said it will replace the NHS with an insurance-based system."
"The government has changed. The attitude to the NHS and its staff has changed. I need the approach of the BMA to change too. Rescuing the NHS from the biggest crisis in its history is a team effort and it will only happen if we are on the same side, working together. I can't do this alone. I need partners, not adversaries. I am in this job to fight for patients every day, just like you,"
Hospitals and GP surgeries are hanging by a thread after more than a decade of neglect by the Conservatives. Progress is being made at rescuing the NHS from the biggest crisis in its history, but success requires medics to cooperate rather than strike. Continued industrial action holds back recovery, slows investment in new technology, equipment and specialty training places, blocks agreed changes and leads to patient failures. If public perception becomes that Labour has failed on the NHS, a Reform government that would replace the NHS with an insurance-based system could be elected. Resident doctors in England staged five consecutive strike days amid a bitter pay dispute. A team effort and partnership with medical staff are presented as essential to save the NHS.
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