Junior doctors’ pay: the dispute and what the future holds
BMJ 2022; 379 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2380 (Published 03 October 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;379:o2380
- Emma Wilkinson
- Sheffield
On Saturday 1 October the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee voted to go to a ballot for industrial action in early January 2023. As many had expected, a deadline of Friday 30 September for the government to respond to junior doctors’ demands on pay passed with no word. With just hours to go, the BMA said that the health and social care secretary for England, Thérèse Coffey, had ignored their invitation to meet senior members and that it had been left “with no choice” but to enter a trade dispute with the government.
What is the pay restoration campaign?
This year has seen a growing campaign by the Junior Doctors Committee over “long term pay erosion.” The committee calculated that since 2008 junior doctors have faced a pay cut in real terms of 26.1% and want to see pay restored to 2008-09 levels.
The committee’s newly elected co-chairs Robert Laurenson and Vivek Trivedi said, “A junior doctor is not worth more than a quarter less today than they were in 2008, and yet this is the amount …
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