February 21st 2023.
Junior doctors will take part in a 72-hour walkout next month.
Ninety-eight per cent of 37,000 BMA members who voted backed their first action since 2016. They now plan a 72-hour walkout next month in their fight for a 26 per cent pay rise. The impact could see thousands of NHS ops cancelled as senior doctors step in.
The BMA said it had called for the government to act on pay in ‘several letters’ and a meeting with health secretary Steve Barclay in January.
‘This vote shows, without a shadow of a doubt, the strength of feeling among most of England’s junior doctors,’ it said of the record 77 per cent turnout.
‘We are frustrated, in despair and angry and we have voted in our thousands to say, “In the name of our profession, our patients, and our NHS, doctors won’t take it anymore”.
‘The government has only itself to blame, standing by in silent indifference as our members are forced to take this difficult decision.’
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