UK doctors' union suspends planned strikes, set to vote on new offer
The BMA will put a revised offer, including 4,500 training places and an average 6.6% pay rise, to about 55,000 doctors.
- On Saturday, the British Medical Association suspended a planned four-day strike by resident doctors in England following a last-minute government offer, averting a walkout scheduled for Monday, June 15.
- Driven by long-running concerns over staffing pressures and pay erosion, this action would have represented the 16th strike since 2023 within the National Health Service.
- Under the new offer, resident doctors receive a 3.5 per cent pay rise in 2026, creating an average increase of about 4.9 per cent, plus 4,500 training places over three years to ease job backlogs.
- BMA Resident Doctors Committee leadership must recommend the deal to members for a referendum; committee chair Jack Fletcher warned that rejection would trigger July strikes.
- Health Secretary James Murray welcomed the suspension as a chance to draw a line under damaging disputes while maintaining that after a 28.9% rise over three years, the country cannot afford to increase the pay offer for this year.
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A fresh Government offer has led to the suspension of planned industrial action by resident doctors, including in Gloucestershire.
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TThe junior doctors were due to strike again, and everyone was sick of the whole business. At the last minute, after a new government offer, the walkout has been called off. This is a relief, even if it isn’t yet a resolution. The vast majority of junior doctors I work with have become as fed up with the dispute as the rest of us. As the strikes have progressed, an ever-increasing number have turned up to work despite being members of the BMA. B…
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RESIDENT DOCTORS’ STRIKE CALLED OFF AFTER NEW GOVERNMENT OFFER
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