Young doctors plan ANOTHER strike despite Labour pay rise
Young doctors could strike again despite Labor Minister Wes Street proposing a staggering pay package that could increase their earnings by 22.3 percent over the next two years.
The wage hike was thought to end months of paralyzing strikes, but a leaked video shows more strikes are planned.
The video shows a British Medical Association (BMA) employee telling a group of junior doctors about plans to ‘bank’ these initial profits, build them up and move on in April 2025, the BMA said. Emphatic newspaper.
Dame Priti Patel claims Labour is showing its “true colours” and fears unions will take even more public money from Keir Starmer.
She said the images showed that ‘Labour is, and always has been, a party run by the trade union magnates.’
The British Medical Association (BMA) junior doctors committee has reportedly agreed to an offer to its members, which if accepted would end months of crippling pay strikes.
Junior doctors are planning to strike again despite Labor Health Minister Wes Streeting (pictured) offering a staggering salary deal that could increase their earnings by 22.3 percent over two years.
The BMA’s call for action comes despite some members admitting they are ‘tired’ from carrying out the previous ’11 rounds of strikes’.
The terms offered by Wes Streeting represent an increase from 8.1 to 10.3 percent for the coming financial year and a retroactive increase of 4.05 percent for 2023/24.
This is on top of an existing 6 per cent pay rise for 2024/25, topped up by a £1,000 payment. This equates to a pay rise of between 7 and 9 per cent.
The total package represents a pay rise of around 22.3 per cent, MailOnline understands, and is thought to cost the taxpayer around £1bn.
Junior doctors in their first year currently earn a basic salary of £32,400, while those with three years’ experience earn £43,900. The most senior doctors earn £63,100.
BMA members are expected to vote on the proposals on Monday, August 19.
Wes Streeting praised the deal with BMA, saying it “finally paves the way for an end to the strikes that have caused untold misery for patients and staff”.
A junior doctor responded to the leaked clip, telling the Express: ‘The BMA doesn’t want to accept the deal but they know members will lose interest.’
The BMA Junior Doctors Committee chairs, Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, said they would encourage members to vote ‘yes’ to the offer and that they hoped to ‘be able to shape this’.
Under the proposed pay deal, junior doctors would receive a pay rise of 8.1 to 10.3 percent for the next budget year, and a retroactive increase of 4.05 percent for 2023/2024.
Junior doctors in their first year now have a basic salary of £32,300, while those with three years’ experience earn £43,900. The most senior earn £63,100
The offer followed months of failed talks with ministers from successive Conservative governments.
The BMA has long claimed its demands are aimed at ‘restoring pay’, as previous NHS pay rises for medics since 2008 have failed to keep pace with inflation.
The latest strike, just days before the general election, was the eleventh strike by young doctors in twenty months.
Since strikes across the NHS began in late 2022, involving doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and paramedics, 1,486,258 appointments have been postponed.
But not all NHS hospitals have provided figures on cancelled appointments, so the true scale of disruption is likely to be higher.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: ‘The NHS is broken and the Secretary of State has made it clear he wants to work with young doctors to get the sector back on track and improve working conditions.
‘The deal being put to doctors will see higher pay for junior doctors and a partnership between the BMA, NHS England and the government to improve conditions, including by overhauling the current rotation system.’
