Co-chair says members ‘very happy to look over deals that would span a number of years’
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has posted a message on X pointing out that his government has managed to avoid a junior doctors’ strike.
Six days of Junior Doctor strikes in England, all because of a UK Government that chooses tax cuts for the wealthy over paying NHS staff fairly.
We have taken different choices in Scotland and avoided a single day of NHS strikes. Our budget gives the NHS a real-terms increase.
The notion that we’re hellbent on calling strikes, and all we want to do is call strikes, is not what we want. What we want is to negotiate an offer we can put to our members and for our members to accept it.
I hope they come back to the table now – but from all of the signals they are sending it won’t be until our strike action finishes. And I hope at that point we can come to a resolution.
So as soon as our strike action finishes we will be asking the government to get back round the table, which as we’ve seen from what they have been saying so far, they should be very willing to do very rapidly.
