The war of words around the #Doctors #strike reaches a new low with #SteveBarclay acusing striking consultants of withholding #cancer treatments;
But, as Dr Vishal Sharma (BMA) observes: it was “incredibly rich of the secretary of state to invoke time-critical procedures when his government has overseen a steep increase in waiting lists that saw them reach record levels even before any strike action took place”.
Its the #Tories that have caused the #NHScrisis not the doctors!
#supportourNHS
@43d7c4ea I don't know why they persist with this narrative - no one *actually* believes it except themselves, as evinced by QT audiences any time a Govt minister tries to trot it out to actual real people.
@43d7c4ea IIRC something like 10% of NHS clinical posts are vacant because nobody qualified wants the job. So that's the equivalent of a 1 day strike every week and a half for the last decade or more.
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17 million people waiting for some form of NHS treatment / consultancy.
Tory politician: "I think you'll find that I am rubber, you are glue. Whatever you acuse me of bounces back and sticks to you"
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