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A |     "We want to save lives, we want to deliver good healthcare," says Dr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at The University of Exeter Medical School, who is attending the BMA conference at the moment. "The difficulty is that we've had a decade of cuts in healthcare, even more than a decade. So, [there has been] more than a decade of cuts, as well as sickness, ill health and pressures of COVID. COVID plus healthcare cuts have made the matter a lot worse.",NHS unionists argue that a 30 percent pay rise is by no means excessive as British medics have suffered a real-terms pay cut of 30 percent since 2008, according to The i, a UK newspaper. BMA conference members say that the fall represents "career earnings loss amounting to millions of pounds" to each doctor.,The BMA is not the only healthcare union demanding government action over long-overdue pay rises. The Royal College of Nursing is seeking a 14 percent pay rise, and Unison, one of the UK's largest trade unions which represents 500,000 NHS and social care workers, is warning of industrial action unless the government brings the public sector's salaries in line with rocketing inflation, according to the Daily Mail.,UK's Teaching, NHS Unions Threaten Strikes Unless They Get Pay Rise More In Line With Inflation20 June, 05:25 GMT,Chronic Underinvestment & Lack of Staff,The UK healthcare has long been suffering from underinvestment and lack of staff which in turn has created an unbearable burden for NHS workers, according to Pankhania.,"There are just not enough clinicians and clinical time to do the job," he says. "And because there is a lot of pressure in the job, a lot of doctors decide to take early retirement; they give up. Although there is a problem, the problem is getting worse because people are saying: 'Well, I'm fed up, I can't do it, I can't cope, I cannot manage'.",The latest NHS data indicates there was a shortage of 8,000 doctors in England as of March this year. He notes that there has been a slow loss of workforce because of a series of meaningless reorganizations over the past decades. "And that's a lot of wasted money in a reorganization upon reorganization," the academic remarks.,In addition to that, the COVID pandemic claimed many healthcare specialists' lives since they were not adequately protected, according to the senior lecturer.,NHS Stretching Thin Trying to Cope With Rising Infections and UK Gov't Isn’t Making Things Easier23 July 2021, 05:00 GMT,Then there is another problem: The NHS faces the loss of thousands of highly experienced senior doctors because pension scheme rules may force them to retire, the BMA warned in April. They could end up losing tens of thousands of pounds in pension benefits if they work beyond 60.,"If you are a senior doctor and your lifetime earnings allowance has been exceeded, you face a tax bill," says Pankhania. "The tax bill is quite large. And therefore you say: 'I cannot go to work when I'm better off not going to work'.",Does the Johnson Government Care About the Wellbeing of Britons?,So far the Tory government has ruled out meeting the demands of healthcare unions on pay rises, insisting that considerable salary hikes would accelerate Britain's inflation that hit a new 40-year high of 9.1 percent in the 12 months to May, according to the Office for National Statistics. The Treasury has only offered a 3 percent rise for public sector workers, which is much lower than the present inflation rate.,"We have a government that is not listening and it is not responsive until their back is to the wall," argues Pankhania. "The government has a huge majority. The government has a lot of issues. One way for the government to deflect from its own internal problems is to have distractions such as 'the stupid doctors are asking for a 30 percent pay rise'. The doctors want to strike. The barristers want to strike. Rail workers want to strike. I do not expect the government to say, 'Oh, let us look at this seriously', because it is in their interests not to do so.",The question then arises whether the incumbent British government really cares about the health and wellbeing of the nation, even though a healthy nation would be more vibrant economically, the senior lecturer highlights.,UK's Tory Government Faces Social Collapse, Having No-One But Itself to Blame21 June, 05:48 GMT,"Unfortunately, the ideology of the current government is not conducive to making the NHS better despite all their lies - that there would be extra money for the NHS if we left the European Union," he says. "This government is not interested in investing genuinely in the National Health Service. It is fragmenting it. It is making it privatized in a drip, drip, drip way, and therefore it haemorrhages money and resources. Every profit that a private enterprise makes is a profit lost to the NHS.",A wave of strikes which the media has dubbed the 'Summer of Discontent' has engulfed Britain in June with railway workers walking out last week in an action dubbed the worst since the Seventies. Criminal law barristers took to the streets on 27 June demanding a 15 percent pay rise, and teachers' unions and the civil service are also being balloted on possible industrial action. Doctors and nurses might follow suit.。    <앵커> 국민의힘 장동혁 대표가 오늘(26일) 취임 1주년 기자회견에서, 당협위원장 직선제를 재차 약속하며 싸우는 정당을 만들겠다고 말했습니다. 하지만 당내에선 장 대표의 퇴진이 먼저라는 반발이 터져 나왔습니다. 손형안 기자의 보도입니다. <기자> 취임 이후 지난 1년 동안 당원 주권 강화에 힘을 쏟았다고 자평하며 기자회견을 시작한 국민의힘 장동혁 대표. 남은 임기 1년 동안, 2028년 총선의 과반 승리와 정권 탈환의 교두보를 쌓겠다며 대여 투쟁 강화를 천명했습니다. [장동혁/국민의힘 대표 : 안으로부터의 개혁을 힘차게 추진하겠습니다. 제대로 싸울 인재들로 당을 채우겠습니다.] 소속 의원들이 반발하는 '당협위원장 직선제'에 대해선 "반드시 해야 하는 일"이라며 당 최고위원회의에서 당협위원장을 선출하는 방식을 바꾸겠단 뜻도 거듭 분명히 했습니다. [장동혁/국민의힘 대표 : 시·도당위원장, 당협위원장 선출 등에 당원이 직접 참여하도록 하여 당원 주권을 더욱 확대해 나가겠습니다.] 장 대표가 추진하는 방안은, 당협위원장을 해당 당원협의회의 전 당원이나 책임당원이 투표로 선출하도록 바꾸겠단 겁니다. 당협위원장 직선제를 추진하는 목적이 '의원 물갈이'를 통한 당권 장악이라고 의심하는 소속 의원들 가운데선, "장 대표가 지난 1년의 실패에 대한 책임을 지고 물러나야 한다"거나 "지금 국민의힘에 필요한 건, 말의 성찬이 아니라 (대표를 새로 뽑는) 전당대회"란 반발이 터져 나왔습니다. 4선 이상 당 중진 의원들도 장 대표 기자회견 이후 회동을 갖고 이런 우려를 표명했습니다. [이종배/국민의힘 의원 : 이런 상태로 우리가 총선 승리하기는 어렵다고 하는 데 의견을 같이해 주셨습니다.] 중진들이 총선 승리를 위해 희생해야 한다고 주장했던 장 대표는 오늘은 '고민해야 할 내용 중 하나'라며 대응 발언의 수위를 조절했고, 내년에 대표직 연임에 도전할지 묻는 질문엔 즉답을 피했습니다. 민주당은 장 대표의 지난 1년에 대해 "보수의 새 길은 없고, 징계와 줄 세우기를 통한 사당만 남았다"고 깎아내렸습니다. (영상취재 : 이승환·신동환, 영상편집 : 이승진, 디자인 : 이준호·양기태)。

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