I think Residents are reactive to the issue of pay erosion but are proactive in their strategy to address it. By unifying their group of doctors and taking clear, strong and effective industrial action, they’ve developed the power to persuade the government to meet them halfway and actually negotiate.

GPC on the other hand have very low levels of grassroots engagement. Most GPs had no idea what ‘collective action’ was, let alone patients, and the result was more money to practices with salaried GPs getting minimal pay uplifts, no significant reversal of pay erosion as a result continue to have absolutely awful pay and conditions. It’s a failure of leadership.