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  1. #Doctors have started a three-day walk-out today, in their ongoing dispute over pay.

    Initial hopes that #VictoriaAtkins might bring calm & sense where #SteveBarclay has merely inflamed the dispute have now been dashed... so, we're back with a dispute that will certainly worsen (in the sort term) the #NHScrisis.

    Biut as always, lets be clear; this is not 'junior' Doctors fault, they have been backed into a corner by a #Tory govt. who have been defunding the NHS to engineer this very crisis!

  2. Oh dear, after a hopeful start #VictoriaAtkins seems to have fallen at the first hurdle, as #JuniorDoctors announce another nine days of strikes over the next eight weeks due negotiations breaking down (again).

    The #NHS crisis is about to enter a even more difficult winter phase & continuing to goad #doctors into strike action is dong no-one any favours.

    I do wonder though whether Atkins room to manoeuvre in negotiations is being constrained by #tory forces elsewhere (No.10?)

  3. Hmmm... so only a couple of weeks after (Hartman) #SteveBarclay was replaced as #Health Secretary, #VictoriaAtkins has helped broker a deal that the BMA will put to #consultants, to end their ongoing series of #strikes.

    It seems pretty clear that Barclay was the problem with reaching a resolution, which also reinforces the notion that the #NHScrisis has been engineered by the #Tories, and is now being ended as they see mileage in ending the deadlock.... game playing with people's health!

  4. Meanwhile Lincolnshire MP, Victoria Atkins, appointed as the new Health Secretary is married to the MD of British Sugar. No conflict of interest there, so.

    #UKPolitics #VictoriaAtkins #BritishSugar