[IER] Government considers minimum service levels in hospitals during strikes

Fri Sep 22 16:51:00 BST 2023

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Government considers minimum service levels in hospitals during strikes

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The government is considering introducing Minimum Service Levels regulations that would require some doctors and nurses to work during strikes, the Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay has announced.

The consultation, launched on Tuesday 19 September 2023, considers introducing MSLs that would cover urgent, emergency and time-critical hospital-based health services – which could cover hospital staff including nurses and doctors – and seeks views on a set of principles for setting MSLs in regulations. It will also seek evidence to inform decisions on the expansion and scope of MSLs.

Professor Phil Banfield, chair of the British Medical Association council, said its members always ensure a minimum level of staffing is preserved during strike action."

“We have always maintained that consultants and junior doctors together, will never stage a full walk-out and we have been clear that we are not planning to do so, with urgent and emergency care continuing to run. It is disingenuous for the secretary of state to say otherwise.

These regulations add further to what we’ve seen from this government in attempting to stifle the right for doctors to act collectively and fight for better pay and conditions in their workplace.”

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