Lord Robert Winston, professor and television doctor who was a pioneer in IVF treatment, resigned from the British Medical Association (BMA) for strikes provided by resident doctors.
Resident doctors, previously known as the junior doctors, provide for a ranging for five consecutive days from July 25 to July 30 for a salary dispute with the government.
In an interview with The Times, the Labor Pair and the host of the BBC Child of Our Time series have exhorted to do a strike action, arguing that it could harm people in the profession.
The BMA met the Secretary of Health earlier this week and said that the government had “declared that it would not negotiate on salary”.
Lord Winston, 84, has been a member of the BMA since 1964.
“I have paid my members for a long time. I am very convinced that it is not the time to strike. I think that the country really has difficulties of all kinds, people are struggling in all kinds,” he told Times.
“Strike Action completely ignores people’s vulnerability to you,” he added.
Resident doctors obtained a salary increase of 5.4% for this exercise – which will enter the remuneration packages from August – following an increase of 22% in the previous two years.
But the BMA claims that wages are still around 20% lower in real terms in 2008.
The Secretary of Health, Wes Street, said that this decision was “useless and unreasonable”, adding: “The NHS is suspended by a thread – why do you devil are they threatening to pull it?”
The BMA resident doctors’ committee, BMA co -presidents, Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr. Ross Nieuwoudt, said they had “no other choice” than to strike without “a credible offer to continue to restore our salary”.
Lord Winston’s comments are intervened after doctors and groups of patients warned that the NHS in England had trouble reducing waiting times – an absolute priority for the NHS.
“Doctors must be recalled that each time they have a patient in front of them, they are afraid and suffer. It is important that doctors consider their own responsibility much more seriously,” he said.
