"Wes Streeting is to offer resident doctors a bigger pay rise than other NHS staff as part of a new package of measures to try to end their long-running dispute. The health secretary also plans to guarantee resident doctors in England that hospitals will be fined if they do not give them good working conditions, such as rest areas and access to hot food."
"Senior figures in the NHS briefed on Streeting's thinking are increasingly optimistic that the measures he is finalising may prove enough to break the deadlock before the third anniversary of the first doctors' strike of the current dispute on 13 March 2023. The health secretary hopes that by offering to significantly improve but for resident doctors only the NHS-wide 2.5% pay offer for 2026/27,"
"Sources with knowledge of talks Streeting has held recently with representatives of the BMA's resident doctors committee say he is considering at least doubling the 2.5%. The doctors' union condemned that figure as indefensible and an insult to doctors when the Department of Health and Social Care first proposed it in evidence to the NHS pay review body and doctors' and dentists' remuneration body."
Wes Streeting plans to offer resident doctors a larger pay rise than other NHS staff and a package of changes aimed at ending the long-running dispute. He intends to guarantee that hospitals in England will be fined if they fail to provide adequate working conditions such as rest areas and access to hot food. He is considering improving previous offers by at least doubling the NHS-wide 2.5% pay proposal for 2026/27 for resident doctors only. The BMA's resident doctors have voted to continue strikes, seeking a 26% pay rise and more training places after multiple walkouts.
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