‘What’s your message to patients whose operations will be delayed?’ ‘What’s your message to other NHS staff who will be picking up the pieces?’ Health Secretary Wes Streeting believes striking doctors like LBC caller Shivam have questions to answer.

@NatashaC @wesstreeting If Wes Streeting had his pay restricted for years and was still 20% down, he might understand, but MPs pay has gone up, year after year. Of course if you were aiming to privatise the NHS, keeping staff wages as low as possible would be a priority.

@wesstreeting Wes asks Shivam to justify strikes? After 14 Tory years and Labour’s £30bn budget hole, docs are cleaning up your mess!

@wesstreeting This is what happens when you give junior doctors a nearly THIRTY PERCENT pay rise Wes, everybody else starts asking for more because they know that they can take you clowns for a ride. You absolute simpleton.

@wesstreeting Gardeners in our area are charging themselves out at £27.50 per hour. Our cleaner wanted an increase to £30 per hour. If doctors are only paid £18 an hour is this acceptable? Or is it really £18? Final salary pension + other benefits?

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@wesstreeting As a member of the public, and sometime patient, I think it's Wes who has questions to answer. Like what has the private sector bought by giving you so much in donations? Did you sell your soul?

@wesstreeting Listeners should be told that £244,000 of Donations from Private Healthcare Providers has the Health secretary taken A clear conflict of interests

@wesstreeting How are you going to explain to patients who have had appointment/scans/operations cancelled and to other staff that you have demoralized the doctors by refusing to negotiate Wes.

@NatashaC @wesstreeting As well as pay restoration, resident doctors seem to be unhappy about the increasing use of physician associates plus the increasing costs of RDs huge student loans - If pay can't be addressed, can these factors instead? @BMAResidents

@wesstreeting Stop trying to get the public on your side by endlessly talking about 28.9% pay rise over 3 yrs. 28.9% of your pay, Health Secretary, would be a significant rise but not when it was 28.9% of £14 an hour for an FY1 dr.

@wesstreeting Greedy bastards. Every ounce of public sympathy for their cause gone.