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...Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, said: “This hard fought-for offer marks a step forward in restoring fairness,” while calling for further restoration of consultants’ pay in the coming years...
...Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, said that “after years of repeated real-terms pay cuts, caused by government interference and a failure of the pay review process, consultants have spoken...
...Dr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants committee, said on Tuesday that the “hard fought-for” offer was a “step forward in restoring fairness”....
...Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, said: “The vote has shown that consultants do not feel the current offer goes far enough to end the current dispute and offer a long-term solution to the...
...Dr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants committee, welcomed the latest offer from the government, saying the union was “pleased that after a month of intense talks . . . we have now got an offer we...
...Accusing ministers of intransigence, Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, appealed to the health secretary, Steve Barclay, “to return to the table and discuss both pay and reform of the rigged...
...Dr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA’s consultants committee, told the Financial Times he and his colleagues had “tried everything to get [the government] to listen”, including “repeatedly” writing to the...
...Dr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants committee, welcomed the meeting with Barclay....
...“It is hugely concerning that record numbers of staff have retired this April, but sadly this comes as no surprise,” said Dr Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA’s consultants’ and pensions committees....
...But Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, said it was “incredibly rich of the secretary of state to invoke time-critical procedures when his government has overseen a steep increase in waiting...
...“If they fail to negotiate, we are not going anywhere,” said Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA consultants’ committee....
...Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, called on prime minister Rishi Sunak to intervene and avoid further disruption to the NHS during his party’s conference....
...Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, said: “This ‘final offer’ and flat refusal to engage in further talks has left us with no option but to continue our action....
...Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA consultants committee chair, said his members did not take their decision on industrial action lightly “but this vote shows how furious they are at being repeatedly devalued by government...
...The system needs to be “urgently reformed”, said Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA’s consultants committee, because it was fuelling a staffing crisis at the NHS and luring workers to overseas jobs with higher...
...Sharma, chair of the BMA’s pension committee....
...Sharma, chair of the British Medical Association consultants committee....
...Dr Vishal Sharma, BMA pensions committee chair, supported the move but said “the reality is that this policy only affects a small number of doctors seeking to return post-retirement — namely psychiatrists...
...Dr Vishal Sharma, pensions committee chair at the British Medical Association, said the announcement showed “the government has finally woken up to the immediate risk of doctors retiring in record numbers...
...said Dr Vishal Sharma, pensions committee chair at the British Medical Association, the doctors’ trade union....
...“People are going above and beyond now with patients and so if anything were to happen to them, we hope the government would look after them afterwards,” said Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA’s pension committee...
...Responding to the news that the government would not go further, Vishal Sharma, pensions committee chair at the British Medical Association, emphasised doctors’ contributions during the Covid-19 crisis but...
...“This is going to have a massive detrimental impact on the NHS just at the time when doctors are needed the most,” said Vishal Sharma, chair of the BMA Pensions Committee....
...“‘The vast majority of doctors are now removed from the effect of the taper and will no longer be in a situation where they are ‘paying to go to work’,” said Dr Vishal Sharma. chair of the pensions committee...
...“For a lot of people, raising the taper threshold will not give them the full reassurance they need to take on extra work,” said Vishal Sharma, head of the BMA’s pension committee....
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