Todays picket at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham🪧 £22.67/hr is not an unreasonable ask. Doctors have subsidised the NHS for far too long. Perhaps @wesstreeting needs reminding that the power to stop these strikes lies squarely with the government. @BMAResidents

The article below: https://t.co/fpDdVPLjlf

Dr Brown spoke with the BBC at our picket. She wants to become an A&E Consultant. However, last year 14 doctors applied per A&E training place and she was unsuccessful. It is a disgrace that patients are waiting hours in A&E, when doctors like Poppy are locked out of training.

Todays Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham picket☔️ It is absurd doctors are struggling find work, yet patients cannot see a GP and are waiting hours in A&E It’s pretty simple @wesstreeting. Resolve the jobs crisis, commit to restoring our pay and we need not strike another day

Resident doctors in the West Midlands! Join us outside the QE Hospital this Friday 14th between 8am and 11am for our regional picket line. There is still time for these strikes to be called off if @wesstreeting comes forward with a credible offer on pay and jobs.

If the government was serious about cutting waiting lists, they would not hold any potential additional training places to ransom. We need substantially more training places than what’s on offer and doctors who have trained here should be prioritised in this recruitment cycle.

What’s ’completely absurd’ is the fact we have unemployed doctors, yet ever growing waiting lists. If the government was serious about cutting them, they would expand the number of specialty training places, so we have more consultants to see patients and no doctors unemployed.

There are unemployed doctors in this country, whilst waiting lists are growing and patients cannot see a doctor. This is under the watch of @wesstreeting This dispute can be resolved by ending the bottleneck crisis AND ensuring the 21% pay cut doctors have received is reversed

Wes Streeting has failed to commit to concrete proposals on pay or jobs. We are left with no choice but to strike. We will strike between 07:00 Friday 14th November and 06:59 Wednesday 19th November. This will be a full walkout.

Elections close tomorrow (Monday) at midday. Why vote for DoctorsVote? We reps work together. We don’t pretend to be independent and we put the movement first. Vote for more wins. Doctors, Vote Now. Candidate list: https://t.co/Z3uNmWHgHL Voting link: https://t.co/huFAgICiBh

Please consider lending us your vote so we can continue work to drive forward the things that matter to resident doctors. Jobs, pay, scope creep, working conditions. We have made progress but there is so much work to be done! 🦀 Vote here 👉🏻

I am standing for Communications Officer and visited Good Hope Hospital today, to talk to doctors. As a team, we helped overturn the locum rate cuts @uhbtrust, where I am a rep. I also met with Prof Leng 1 on 1 during her review into Physician Assistants.

If you’d consider lending us your vote, as well as our other fantastic DoctorsVote candidates across the region, we can then ensure doctors in the West Midlands continue to have strong representation. Voting closes at 12 noon on Monday 8th September. 🦀

Ossama Elshukri is standing for Deputy Chair and has been a rep in the Black Country. He has campaigned throughout the strike ballots for pay restoration. As a team we will continue to ensure we have strong mandates for strike action, should we need to ballot again. @shukuriii

@ErinGourley1 is a Psych Trainee in Coventry and is standing alongside @DrPeterFahey who is a GP Trainee in Worcester, for Co-Chair. Both have pushed for reform to maternity/paternity leave. Peter was previous Co-Chair of the Welsh RDC and Erin is the incoming RDConf Co-Chair.

King Charles wasn’t the only visitor @MidlandMetUH today. Thomas Rourke, who is standing for Exec Officer, was there meeting doctors too. He has done work to ensure doctors receive their contractural right to an additional 5 days of annual leave after 5 years of NHS experience.

I am standing for Communications Officer and visited Good Hope Hospital today, to talk to doctors. As a team, we helped overturn the locum rate cuts @uhbtrust, where I am a rep. I also met with Prof Leng 1 on 1 during her review into Physician Assistants.

Your @DoctorsVoteUK candidates in the West Midlands have been out across the region, spreading the message to vote in the BMA Resident Doctor Committee elections. We will fight for FPR and increased training places. Please follow the link to vote: https://t.co/GOjfowdUU9

Check your inbox for an update on negotiations. @DrBeckyl from RDC gives her cautiously optimistic take. Strikes got your reps in the room. Calling a strike once we’re in negotiations simply stalls the progress we are making; but if talks break down your co-chairs won’t hesitate

Reminder to resident doctors in the West Midlands to please vote in the Regional Resident Dr Committee elections if you haven’t yet! Additional plea to consider voting for me and the fantastic team I’m running with. As always, we will continue to work hard to represent you! 🦀

WM resident Drs, It’s been a pleasure to represent you this year ☺️ We’d love to continue our work to restore pay, deal with the job crisis & address scope creep. I’ll also continue work to improve maternity experience for resident Drs! Vote here: https://t.co/6Je27npxYy 🦀