Resident doctors in England will stage a four-day strike from 7am on 15 June to 6.59am on 19 June over a long-running pay dispute. The action will be the 16th stoppage since March 2023 and is expected to disrupt NHS care by forcing hospitals to rearrange tens of thousands of diagnostic tests, outpatient appointments, and operations. The British Medical Association wants pay increases to make up for a claimed 26% loss in real-terms salary value since 2008-09. The BMA also urges a major expansion of training places for resident doctors. The new health secretary, James Murray, rejected the pay claim as unrealistic, unaffordable, and unsustainable, and said the demands are not grounds for more strike action.
"I'm disappointed that the BMA have refused to consider further discussions about how to strengthen the deal on the table and have instead rushed once again to unnecessary and unreasonable strike action, said Murray, who met BMA representatives earlier on Wednesday. I was clear with the BMA that after a 33.4% pay rise for resident doctors over the last four years the highest anywhere across the public sector the BMA's demands for further substantial pay increases this year are"
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