Doctors In England, 29 percent of salary is demanding uplift. The running cycle of attacks This has “suffered a lot of damage to patients and comprehensive healthcare systems”.
Resident doctors in England, earlier known as junior doctors, have started receiving ballots Latest industrial action After criticizing the government’s recent salary increase proposal.
There will be more pressure on fresh demands Chancellor before reviewing next week’s expenses,
Rahel Reeves is facing increasing questions on whether it will be able to stick to its fiscal rules or not – the government determines itself to spend itself and disrupt its own decisions on taxes – amidst demands of increasing expenses.
Adding on Wednesday under pressure It was revealed that the police chiefs and the MI5 have called the government to give more money after the latest plans to leave the prisoners early.
The heads of the Metropolitan Police, Mi5 and National Crime Agency were among those who warned that the plan to quit the prisoners early may be “pure obstruction for public safety” in a letter to the Ministry of Justice. Many times.
He argued that he would need “necessary resources” in review of upcoming expenditure to deal with the effects of the scheme and maintain orders.
Last week, ministers announced that salary demands from resident doctors. Most doctors will get 4 percent salary increase After the latest review of public sector salary, receiving additional £ 750 at the top of the uplift with resident doctors.
But the British Medical Association (BMA), the association representing doctors said that the increment does not far away in restoring the historic salary freeze, sending ballots for industrial action on Tuesday.
The ballot closes on 7 July, and if the doctors vote for action, a mandate will run between July and January next year.
Resident Doctors Committee co-heads urged doctors to vote for strike action, but said that the door was open by the government to come with the solution.
It comes after Health Secretary, Especially Independent, NHS considers doctors “like nonsense”, but urged Medics Not to strike in the latest row about salary.
Mr. Streeting has warned that the industrial action will push the progress made on reducing the waiting list and There should be a final solution.
“NHS is finally on the road for recovery. I am urging resident doctors today: Do not set this progress back.
“Strike should always be a last solution, and three above-affected increments in a row means that we are away from it. Instead, let’s keep pulling towards recovery”, he wrote.
Last year, resident doctors took 44 days of industrial action between March 2023 and July 2024, which was abolished by Wes Streeting as 22 percent increment.
And this year, he was awarded another inflation-busting increment of 5.4 percent.
But warning that doctors “fixing pay” “cannot wait for different fiscal conditions”, they have now asked to restore their salary to 2008 levels, which they argue will require an increase of 28.7 percent keeping in mind the inflation.
Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr. Ross Neuvoud said: “Last week, the government finally told us what will it do to restore the salary of doctors: Almost nothing.
“Doctors have seen a decline of 23 percent in their salary in real terms since 2008. Today any doctor is priced at less than this, but when the government is being offered, we will once again be before reaching that level of salary before a decade.
“As the ballots fall through the doctors’ letterbox once again, we are simply saying: NHS does not have that time. The waiting list is very high, many people cannot see their GP, a lot of patients are being treated in the corridors.
“Doctors not in the country and their career in 10 or 20 years, but now, but now.”
While urging the doctors to vote for the strike action, he said: “Yes, yes, they will tell the government that there is no option to fix the salary – it cannot wait for various fiscal conditions and a healthy NHS. The answer is to fix it today.”
The increase recommended by the Independent Pay Review Body is above the rate of inflation, which increased by 3.5 percent in April, 2.6 percent in March and the highest since January 2024.
But the council’s BMA Chairman Professor Philip Banfield warned that the salary of doctors is “still less than a quarter, which was 16 years ago in real terms”, saying that the salary prize “is even more, without a government plan or without assurance to correct this erosion, without assurance.”