The British Medical Association insists that resident doctors deserve a 29% pay rise due to real-terms pay cuts over the years, particularly following their efforts during the Covid pandemic. A meeting is set between the BMA and the health secretary to prevent five days of strikes beginning on 25 July. Dr Emma Runswick emphasized that doctors' remuneration did not reflect their sacrifices during the pandemic. The BMA aims to restore losses since 2008, with no plans to negotiate on the figure, blaming the government for insufficient responses to their claims.
We are still down compared to even the pandemic in 2020, Dr Emma Runswick, a resident doctor in Greater Manchester and deputy chair of the BMA council, stated. The reward for working to get the country through Covid has been a real-terms pay cut, which was not the treatment expected during the days when people lined the streets to clap for health workers.
The BMA's new chair, Tom Dolphin, asserted that the union would not negotiate on the figure which simply restored doctors' losses since 2008 rather than increasing their pay. He indicated that the strike was due to the government's failure to adequately address their pay concerns this year.
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