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With the benefit of hindsight, Mr Streeting, do you regret or perhaps wished that you'd settled
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differently with the junior doctors, the resident doctors a year ago? I mean
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you very quickly settled and gave them 22% without any productivity agreement in place
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And many would say, well, it's no surprise that they came back for more. You've opened Pandora's
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box and now you're struggling to put the lid back on and patients are now facing an absolute
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nightmare before Christmas? I did that deal because I thought it was the right thing to do
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And I think that these are early career doctors who are feeling particular pressures in their careers and their lives
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And I wanted to make progress as quickly as I could. I do think the BMA have been behaving generally
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as their juvenile delinquents. And it's not just on this. On general practice, we have rolled out online access
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to almost every GP practice in the country, 98.7%. You would think listening to the BMA that doctors are up in arms about this
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and absolutely furious, when actually they've embraced this and are working with us to do it
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And this should be good news. And I think the BMA are doing a real disservice to their members
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because they could be out there today saying, we're rolling out online access. Patient satisfaction has risen from 60% when we came into office
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to 75% with access to general practice. that is remarkable achievement in a relatively short space of time and a real credit to gps
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instead the the bma are complaining about it and i think doing a disservice to their members in in
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the process um so lots done but when you know if 75 are satisfied that means a quarter are not so
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i'll be the first to say lots done but also lots more to do but gps are working with us i wish the
