Resident doctors discuss 'all options'

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Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan, co-chairs of the BMA Resident Doctor Committee, spoke to the media outside Portcullis House, Westminster, after a “constructive” meeting with Health Secretary Wes Streeting. A five-day walkout is scheduled to start next week and could cause significant upheaval to the NHS in England. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The talks today have been constructive and they're a first step. It was a very

00:04high-level discussion and we're looking forward to more discussions to hopefully

00:09about the strike action. No one wants strikes, patients don't want strikes, we

00:12don't want strikes and the government doesn't want strikes so hopefully in the

00:16next few days will be very very useful. The pay is probably the simplest

00:22solution in order to avert this dispute obviously but we talked with Mr.

00:28treating on frankly about other options, other ways that would improve the value

00:32of resident doctors. It was a frank discussion and constructive but we need

00:38to have more discussions in the coming days.

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