Doctor leading campaign for pay rises and strike action has TWO firms backing walkouts
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SIDE HUSTLE
Resident docs have taken industrial action 11 times since 2022 - wreaking havoc on appointments
- Scarlet Howes, Chief Sunday Reporter
A TOP doctor campaigning for pay rises and strike action has a sideline running two start-up companies, we can reveal.
Cardiologist Dr U Bhalraam is deputy co-chairman of the British Medical Association’s resident doctors committee — which is backing six more months of walkouts.
It is urging members to strike, claiming they are paid 23 per cent less in real terms than in 2008.
This is despite resident doctors — formerly known as junior doctors — getting an almost 30 per cent pay rise over the past three years.
On his website, Dr Bhalraam says he’s “focused on full pay restoration”.
But The Sun on Sunday has found that Dr Bhalraam has also set up two firms of which he is sole director and owner.
He launched Datamed Solutions Ltd, a data processing company, last June and just a few days later UBR Property Holdings Limited, which is described as a letting company.
They are both registered to his smart £330,000 house in Norwich, where he works at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Resident docs have taken industrial action 11 times since 2022, causing about 1.5million appointments to be cancelled.
A YouGov poll of 4,100 adults found almost half oppose the strikes.
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