When doctors get to the end of training, they expect Consultant/GP jobs. The NHS isn't willing to fund those jobs or the facilities they require. They don't even have the capacity for current Consultants to carry out enough work, let alone an increase

A conversation needs to be had about what the NHS can and can't afford to do with the public. Maybe you and others can push for it? Since 2008, NHS staff have had to subsidise it with real terms pay cuts. If the country can't afford the NHS without staff subsidising it then it can't afford the NHS

Regarding our dispute, it's largely irrelevant and felt even more so by the resident doctor cohort. When public support was at a literal pots-and-pan banging crescendo, we were exposed to a pandemic with insufficient PPE and this is what was happening to our pay...

On rushing to strike. The DHSC recommended yet another below inflation pay rise to the DDRB for next year. How can it feel like we're not exploring every avenue and just striking when we are in dispute about past pay and we already know the next uplift is going to be a real-terms pay cut?

Sounds like you need to read the peak of fiction