Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has posted to X and said: "A positive first meeting with the BMA Junior Doctors Committee today."
Statement from Wes Streeting:
I met face to face with the junior doctors committee today to hit the reset button on relations between the government and junior doctors.
Patients, staff, and the NHS have already paid too high a price due to strike action, and I'm optimistic that we can bring this to an end.
It's not going to be easy. This government has inherited the worst set of economic circumstances since the second world war. But both sides have shown willingness to negotiate and we are determined to do the hard work required to find a way through. I am angry about the way the junior doctors are treated in the NHS, and there is a lot we can do to change that.
Junior doctors are the future of the health service and I want to work with them to turn around our NHS.
I'm looking forward to meeting them again next week to discuss what went wrong in past talks, and to make further progress on finding a solution to this dispute.
Wes Streeting
Health and Social Care Secretary
https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1810715429809070580
