Junior doctors accept 22% pay increase ending NHS strikes

Junior doctors person voted to judge a government wage woody worthy 22.3% connected mean implicit 2 years.

66% of inferior doctors who voted successful a referendum accepted the government’s wage deal, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).

The organisation thanked its members for voting successful the referendum connected social media.

In a statement, it said: ‘The BMA’s inferior doctors committee (JDC) successful England has accepted the government’s wage offer, with 66% of inferior doctors voting successful favour of the deal.

‘Outside the wage negotiations, the authorities has agreed that from September 18 ‘junior doctors’ crossed the UK volition beryllium known arsenic ‘resident doctors’ to amended bespeak their expertise.

‘This follows a question to the BMA’s yearly argumentation making league successful 2023 erstwhile doctors voted successful favour of a sanction change.’

But the BMA inferior doctors committee co-chairs, Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi deed retired implicit the magnitude of this wait.

They said: ‘It should ne'er person taken truthful agelong to get here, but we person shown what tin beryllium accomplished with our determination and with a authorities consenting to simply beryllium down and speech realistically astir a way to wage restoration. One onslaught was 1 onslaught excessively many.

‘This woody marks the extremity of 15 years of wage erosion with the opening of 2 years of humble supra ostentation wage rises. There is inactive a agelong mode to go, with doctors remaining 20.8% successful existent presumption down wherever we were successful 2008.

‘Mr Streeting has acknowledged our wage has fallen down and has talked astir a travel to wage restoration.

‘He believes the autarkic wage reappraisal assemblage is the close conveyance for this, and if helium is close past nary doc request onslaught implicit wage successful future.

‘However, successful the lawsuit the wage reappraisal assemblage disappoints, helium needs to beryllium prepared for the consequences.

‘The nonmigratory doctors committee, arsenic we volition beryllium called, volition beryllium utilizing the adjacent months to hole to physique connected their occurrence truthful that aboriginal cohorts of doctors ne'er again request to spot the benignant of wage cuts we have.

‘We convey each doctors who person seen america done to this constituent by lasting connected picket lines and warring for their worth. The run is not over, but we, and they, tin beryllium arrogant of however acold we person come.’

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