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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

UK trains hundreds of thousands of doctors for NHS to ‘treat them like cr**’, health secretary admits

Wes Streeting is the government’s health secretary - (PA)

Health secretary Wes Streeting has admitted the NHS treats doctors “like crap” but urged medics not to strike in the latest row about pay.

Resident doctors, formerly junior doctors, are being balloted for strike action after anger over the government’s latest pay offer of a 4 per cent pay rise for most doctors, which unions say is too low.

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