Nothing junior about leading an arrest team. Nothing junior about looking after the entire hospital overnight. Nothing junior about deliviring life-saving treatment. This is a welcome change, part of the cultural shift towards greater respect towards the profession.

Holding doctors’ jobs ransom whilst patients can’t access doctors and waiting lists soar, is a disgraceful position for a health secretary to adopt. Wes is right, strikes have a cost. And at £250m a pop, he’d be better off tabling a credible offer that addresses pay and jobs.🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ll look forward to The Royal Colleges condemning what is clearly a detrimental & childish decision Oh wait ……

Right now doctors are applying for jobs in Aug 2026. Tens of thousands of these doctors will be turned away. No govt plan we’ve seen will change that. Patients are in corridors & we’re turning doctors away. We need concrete plans now - not changes in 2027. Our door is open

"We've overspent to clear simple cases by paying our mates in the private sector with your money instead of funding NHS services properly so they can deal with capacity and now want to claim that we've done you all a favour while complex cases sit on growing waiting lists." FTFY

Also if there is a willingness to already put investment into other areas of resident doctor expenses (exam fees is quoted) Why can that funding not be directed into direct pay talks? That cannot be a fiscal decision and so must be a political one

I'm sure the public will be very grateful for that. Not like we have waiting lists into the millions and people waiting months if not years to see a specialist. What a bizarre line of threat from @wesstreeting.

The government could use the millions they spend covering the cost of the strike to resolve the dispute It makes no economic sense to let this strike continue from the government Meanwhile, the government spend billions on management consultants and privatising the NHS Waste

Wes Streeting would rather spend £250 million covering the cost of strikes than take real action to get unemployed doctors back to work. Thousands of doctors are sitting at home unable to progress because of government caps on speciality training places, the only route to

@DocShivSharma I support doctors 100% Labour are continuing to Privatise the NHS @wesstreeting

Only in this country could the government threaten to cut doctor jobs while waiting lists hit record highs. Over 1,000 doctors are jobless, while patients wait for care and ministers say: "stop striking or lose your jobs." It’s blackmail and it’s absurd.

⚠️ Resident doctors working tonight ⚠️ The clocks go back. Trusts don’t usually adjust rotas - putting you and patients at risk. The safe limits are there for a reason. Rotas should be adjusted. If your shift this weekend is >13 hours, exception report it.

Doctors are being kept unemployed while patients face long waits in A&E and for surgery. The Government has imposed an artificial cap on speciality training numbers; blocking doctors from becoming your GP or your Consultant. This year alone there were 20,000 more applications

There have been months of talks. We’re on the precipice of another job cycle. Tens of thousands of doctors will be turned away. Doctors need jobs & patients need doctors. Waiting lists up, patients in corridors. We need changes now to recruit & value doctors, not in 2 years.

@wesstreeting You have had months to produce something meaningful to move us further forward on the path to full pay restoration. You have refused to. We are asking for a fully qualified resident doctor to move from £18.62/hr to £22.67/hr over time. That is an entirely fair and reasonable

"negotiate on jobs" Wes, this country is short of specialists needed to treat the population and waiting lists are growing. Increasing training posts is part of your basic job description as health secretary, not a bargaining chip to avoid paying doctors what they are worth.

At the launch of the Medical Training Review today. The diagosis was clear: training bottlenecks, frequent rotations and burnout are undermining the next generation of doctors. It was good to hear the recognition for urgent execution. The profession can't get this wrong.

Why are doctors having to negotiate to increase the number of doctors this country trains to become the futre experts we need to look after us Especially with shortage of doctors we already have now If used as negotiation offer, does Government actually want this?

The 28.9% rise from this Government line is unequivocally false https://t.co/oovPAGqDzg How meaningful were these talks if after 2 months there is nothing to show for them? @BMAResidents happy to engage, but need willingess from Govt to meaningfully address issues being raised

Claiming resident doctors have had a 28.9% “pay rise” is a misrepresentation of the facts. Resident Doctors’ pay remains over 20% down in real terms since 2008. It doesn’t matter which way you paint it; the part reversal of pay cuts is not a pay rise.

Doctors, after months of talking and engaging in good faith, are finally taking action There has to be movement from the government on both pay and jobs - the membership have made this clear It's irresponsible to close up shop and not negotiate after 2 successful ballots