Junior doctors in England have voted to accept a new pay deal from the government. This means that a doctor starting NHS foundation training will now be on a wage of £36,600 a year. As the National Health Service is set to face upcoming winter pressure, earlier this month, PM Sir Keir Starmer promised to draw up a new 10-year plan for the health service, as he said there will be no extra NHS funding without reform.
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00:00NHS chiefs have warned that urgent and emergency care services are likely to come under significant
00:06pressure, with patients facing longer waits for care as the coldest months of the year
00:11approach. This news comes as junior doctors in England have voted to accept a new pay
00:16deal from the government. This means that a doctor starting NHS Foundation training
00:21will now be on a wage of £36,600 a year. As the National Health Service is set to face
00:27upcoming winter pressure, earlier this month, PM Sir Keir Starmer promised to draw up a
00:33new 10-year plan for the health service, as he said there will be no extra NHS funding
00:38without reform. Now, recent research by the World Health Organisation found that in 2023,
00:44there were almost 230,000 complaints in relation to clinical negligence in the NHS. This was
00:51an increase from the previous year. After the PM said that with declining productivity
00:57and ballooning wait times by emergency services could put patients at risk, what's your current
01:02opinion on the NHS?