Health Sec: We did everything we could to avert strikes

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government "did everything we could to avert these strikes" including "meeting for hours with BMA officials" as Resident doctors begin five days of strike action.  Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We did everything we could to avert these strikes, even meeting for hours with BMA officials yesterday

00:06to see if even at the 11th hour we could avert the strikes.

00:09After constructive discussions, we still weren't able to persuade the BMA

00:13either to come into negotiations or indeed to delay strikes to January, as I had offered.

00:21Our entire focus now is on keeping patients safe, particularly over the next five days of strike action,

00:26but also through what is the peak period for the NHS.

00:31I'm enormously grateful to frontline NHS staff who are there, ready, waiting to see patients.

00:38If you need medical assistance, please come forward.

00:41If it's an accident or an emergency, by all means, use A&E services.

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