Barclay: I’m fighting doctors’ pay demands for the sake of NHS staff

The government is resisting what it believes are inflationary pay demands from junior doctors for the sake of NHS staff, health and social care secretary Steve Barclay has told HSJ.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Barclay also:

• Rejected the idea that it would be impossible to hit the prime minister’s waiting times pledge without settling the junior doctors strike;
• Defined what he believed was the difference between good and bad management;
• Refused to apologise to the 123 trusts whose bids for “new hospital programme” funding were rejected.

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Source: HSJ, 10 July 2023