Junior doctors have voted to accept a government pay deal worth 22.3 per cent on average over two years, bringing their long-running dispute to an end in Cumbria.
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee in England has accepted the Government’s pay offer, with 66 per cent of junior doctors voting in favour of the deal.
Junior doctors took industrial action 11 times in the past 22 months and were calling for a 35 per cent pay rise.
The deal will see junior doctors’ pay rise by between 3.71 per cent and 5.05 per cent – averaging 4.05 per cent – on top of their existing pay award for 2023/24. This will be backdated to April 2023.
Each part of the pay scale will also be uplifted by 6 per cent, plus £1,000, as recommended by the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB), with an effective date of April 1 2024.
Both rises mean a doctor starting foundation training in the NHS will see base pay increase to £36,600, up from about £32,400.
A full-time doctor entering specialty training will have basic pay rise to £49,900 from about £43,900
Due to the strikes, thousands of appointments have been rescheduled due to strikes at North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) since the end of 2022, new figures show.
Analysis of NHS England figures shows a total of 2,837 appointments have been rescheduled due to industrial action at NCIC since December 2022.
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Of these, 2,735 were in acute settings, while 102 were community appointments.
In addition, 2,908 working days were lost due to strikes.
These figures cover various parts of the NHS workforce – consultants, nurses and other occupations have also been on strike over the past two years – so not every cancelled appointment was with a junior doctor.
A spokesperson for NCIC said: “During any period of industrial action we do put plans in place to cover any shortages in staffing. “
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