Streeting says he cannot guarantee patient safety if resident doctors’ strike goes ahead amid flu pressures – UK politics live

Health secretary says aggressive strain of virus is putting NHS under worst strain since Covid

Q: Is the BMA more of a political organisation than a health organisation?

Streeting says it feels like that, but he says he does not want to go over that again today.

I haven’t just listened to resident doctors’ complaints about the competition for jobs. I agree with them.

It used to be that resident doctors competed amongst themselves for specialty training places — the next rung on the ladder in a medic’s career. Thanks to obscure immigration and visa changes introduced by the Conservatives post-Brexit, they now compete with the world’s doctors.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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