Junior doctors ‘very likely’ to join walkouts if 26pc demand is not met, says BMA
2 years ago

Junior doctors ‘very likely’ to join walkouts if 26pc demand is not met, says BMA

The Telegraph  

Junior doctors are “very likely” to strike over demands for a pay rise of more than a quarter, the British Medical Association has said. Dr Emma Runswick, the BMA deputy chairman of council, said it was “very likely” that medics would vote in favour of action, telling Sky’s Sophy Ridge show that pay rises in recent years had not kept up with inflation and calling for increases of 26 per cent. It’s in in the Government’s gift to negotiate.” Questioned on whether she thought a 26 per cent rise likely, Dr Runswick said: “It’s only as steep as the money that has been cut from us. “We’ve had pay cuts for junior doctors of 26.1 per cent since 2008.

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BMA recommends Scottish junior doctors accept 10.8% pay offer
2 months, 1 week ago

BMA recommends Scottish junior doctors accept 10.8% pay offer

The Independent  

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Reconsider decision: Senior Bengal doctors ask junior docs to scale down strike
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Reconsider decision: Senior Bengal doctors ask junior docs to scale down strike

Hindustan Times  

KOLKATA: Junior doctors in West Bengal’s government hospitals who have been on strike on Thursday held a discussion with senior doctors to decide if they should continue with the complete cease work or scale down the agitation to a partial strike. Members of Bengal Junior Doctors' Front and others take part in a mega rally on October 2 to demand …

Junior doctors will strike again ‘if we need to’ – BMA
3 months, 1 week ago

Junior doctors will strike again ‘if we need to’ – BMA

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chairman of the BMA’s Junior …

Junior doctors threaten MORE strikes if pay doesn't keep spiking despite ministers handing them a bumper 22% rise to settle current action
3 months, 1 week ago

Junior doctors threaten MORE strikes if pay doesn't keep spiking despite ministers handing them a bumper 22% rise to settle current action

Daily Mail  

Junior doctors have warned of more strikes if pay does not keep rising despite accepting a bumper 22 per cent offer. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it was the 'first step' to getting the NHS back on its feet He told BBC Breakfast: 'This is the first step towards restoring pay, which is all that doctors have wanted since the …

Junior doctors vote to accept government pay deal of 22.3% over two years
3 months, 1 week ago

Junior doctors vote to accept government pay deal of 22.3% over two years

The Independent  

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Junior doctors in England vote to accept Government pay offer
3 months, 1 week ago

Junior doctors in England vote to accept Government pay offer

The Independent  

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Tories ideologically hateful towards working people, says doctors’ union
4 months, 1 week ago

Tories ideologically hateful towards working people, says doctors’ union

The Telegraph  

The British Medical Association has claimed that Tory MPs are “ideologically hateful towards working people” in a row over public sector pay. The comments by Dr Rob Laurenson, the co-chairman of the BMA’s junior doctors’ committee, came as train drivers were offered a pay rise of nearly 15 per cent over three years by the Government. Although Dr Laurenson represents …

UK doctors' union may call end to strikes
4 months, 3 weeks ago

UK doctors' union may call end to strikes

China Daily  

This file photo taken on Sept 14 shows the National Health Service logo on St Thomas' Hospital in London, Britain. Months of industrial action by junior doctors in England's National Health Service may be coming to an end after their union recommended they accept a new offer of a 22.3-percent total pay increase over two years. "I am delighted that …

'Difficult' cuts needed to fund staggering 22 per cent junior doctor pay deal Government admits... but union members already slam 'abysmal' offer as 'not good enough'
4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Difficult' cuts needed to fund staggering 22 per cent junior doctor pay deal Government admits... but union members already slam 'abysmal' offer as 'not good enough'

Daily Mail  

Chancellor Rachel Reeves today confirmed the Government has put a pay deal to junior doctors that could see their earnings rise by a staggering 22 per cent. Yet she admitted 'difficult' cuts were urgently required by Government departments to fund the colossal public sector pay increases The British Medical Association's junior doctors committee will now put the offer to its …

Labour offers junior doctors a WHOPPING 22 per cent pay rise to end paralysing strikes
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Labour offers junior doctors a WHOPPING 22 per cent pay rise to end paralysing strikes

Daily Mail  

Labour has offered junior doctors a staggering pay deal that could see their earnings rise by 22.3 per cent over two years. However, as large as the 22 per cent pay boost is on paper, it still falls short of the 35 per cent BMA junior medics were demanding as they repeatedly took to the picket lines. Tory Ministers previously …

Hospitals left ‘picking up the pieces’ as junior doctors’ strike ends
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Hospitals left ‘picking up the pieces’ as junior doctors’ strike ends

The Independent  

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Thousands of doctors go on strike in England a week before the UK general election
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands of doctors go on strike in England a week before the UK general election

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout on Thursday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services just days before the U.K. general election. The five-day strike by junior doctors — those in the early years of their careers — shines a spotlight on the troubles besetting the …

NHS warning over hot-weather strike
5 months, 3 weeks ago

NHS warning over hot-weather strike

China Daily  

This file photo taken on Sept 14 shows the National Health Service logo on St Thomas’ Hospital in London, Britain. The United Kingdom's National Health Service has warned that patients will experience significant disruption as the latest junior doctor strike coincides with the hottest week of the year so far. The British Medical Association, or BMA, will begin a five-day …

NHS warning over hot-weather strike
5 months, 3 weeks ago

NHS warning over hot-weather strike

China Daily  

By Jonathan Powell in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-06-27 04:52 This file photo taken on Sept 14 shows the National Health Service logo on St Thomas’ Hospital in London, Britain. The United Kingdom's National Health Service has warned that patients will experience significant disruption as the latest junior doctor strike coincides with the hottest week of the …

Starmer’s strongest warning yet to striking doctors: I won’t give 35% rise
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Starmer’s strongest warning yet to striking doctors: I won’t give 35% rise

The Independent  

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Telangana junior doctors to begin statewide strike today
6 months ago

Telangana junior doctors to begin statewide strike today

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD : Around 6,000 junior doctors from 26 medical colleges across Telangana will begin an indefinite strike from Monday. Earlier on June 18, the Telangana Junior Doctors Association submitted a letter to the director of medical education, listing their demands and intimating the DME about a strike from Monday in case the authorities failed to take tangible action. Dr B …

Union urges junior doctors to accept pay offer from Welsh Government
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Union urges junior doctors to accept pay offer from Welsh Government

The Independent  

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Junior doctors to go on strike for five days during election campaign
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Junior doctors to go on strike for five days during election campaign

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The co-chairmen of the BMA junior doctors committee, Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, …

Furious Tories accuse junior doctors of 'cynical' tie-up with Labour to sabotage election after militant union announces SIX DAY strike ending just 48 hours before polls open on July 4
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Furious Tories accuse junior doctors of 'cynical' tie-up with Labour to sabotage election after militant union announces SIX DAY strike ending just 48 hours before polls open on July 4

Daily Mail  

Tories vented fury at unions for attempting to sabotage the election today after junior doctors announce a six-day walkout. Pictured, junior doctors in January outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary Junior doctors in their first year now have a basic pay of £32,300, while those with three years' experience make £43,900. Junior doctors in their first year now have a basic …

Wes Streeting: I won’t give in to doctors’ unions over NHS pay
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Wes Streeting: I won’t give in to doctors’ unions over NHS pay

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Wes Streeting hopes that soon he will be the new health secretary He added: “I …

Why thousands of junior doctors in South Korea are striking, and what it means for patients
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Why thousands of junior doctors in South Korea are striking, and what it means for patients

LA Times  

Doctors stage a rally against the South Korean government’s medical policy near the presidential office in Seoul. Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea have been refusing to see patients and attend surgeries since they walked off the job Feb. 20 in response to the government’s push to recruit more medical students. But observers say the country’s overall medical service …

Sunak challenged on NHS as strike continues
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sunak challenged on NHS as strike continues

The Independent  

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Thousands of doctors in England to strike again as health likely to become a key UK election issue
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Thousands of doctors in England to strike again as health likely to become a key UK election issue

Associated Press  

LONDON — Thousands of doctors in the early years of their careers in England are to go on strike later this month for another five-day stretch as their long-standing pay dispute with the British government remains in stasis. The British Medical Association, the union that represents the so-called junior doctors, said on Friday that the government had “failed to meet …

Junior doctors announce fresh wave of NHS strike action
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Junior doctors announce fresh wave of NHS strike action

The Telegraph  

Junior doctors will strike for five days at the end of February, the British Medical Association has announced. It accused the Government of moving at “glacial speed” to reach a pay deal and claimed Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary, had refused “an act of good faith” to extend talks. In a statement, Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, who …

Junior doctors’ strikes threaten to cancel out NHS waiting list progress
11 months, 1 week ago

Junior doctors’ strikes threaten to cancel out NHS waiting list progress

The Telegraph  

Junior doctors’ strikes could cancel out the progress made on reducing the NHS waiting list, data suggest. The NHS posted a near record fall in the overall waiting list of 100,000 to 7.6 million in November, when there were no doctors’ strikes. It marked the largest decline since 2010, excluding three months at the start of the pandemic, and was …

U.K. junior doctors’ ‘historic’ strike for better pay | Explained
11 months, 2 weeks ago

U.K. junior doctors’ ‘historic’ strike for better pay | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: Drawing picket lines around London hospitals, junior doctors in the U.K. staged the longest walkout in the 75-year-long history of the state-funded National Health Service. “A crippling cost-of-living crisis, burnout and well below inflation pay rises risk driving hard-working doctors out of their profession at a time when we need them more than ever,” the BMA …

‘I earned more working at Amazon’ - Junior doctors explain why they are striking
11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘I earned more working at Amazon’ - Junior doctors explain why they are striking

The Independent  

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Thousands of doctors in Britain walk off the job in their longest-ever strike
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands of doctors in Britain walk off the job in their longest-ever strike

Associated Press  

LONDON — Patients faced canceled treatments after thousands of British doctors walked off the job on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike over pay that was set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service. On a picket line outside St. Thomas’ Hospital in central London, 28-year-old Dr. Georgia Blackwell said stress and low …

Thousands of junior doctors in Britain walk off the job in six-day strike over pay
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands of junior doctors in Britain walk off the job in six-day strike over pay

LA Times  

Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association demonstrate outside St. Thomas’ Hospital in London on Wednesday at the start of a six-day strike. On a picket line outside St. Thomas’ Hospital in central London, 28-year-old Dr. Georgia Blackwell said stress and low pay were driving many doctors to take jobs overseas. The government says it won’t hold further …

Patients will be at risk in January’s strike by junior doctors – health chief
1 year ago

Patients will be at risk in January’s strike by junior doctors – health chief

The Independent  

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Junior doctors to return to work with longest strike on the horizon
1 year ago

Junior doctors to return to work with longest strike on the horizon

The Independent  

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Junior doctors’ strike to affect patient care, NHS boss warns
1 year ago

Junior doctors’ strike to affect patient care, NHS boss warns

The Independent  

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Junior doctors announce fresh strikes after talks break down
1 year ago

Junior doctors announce fresh strikes after talks break down

The Independent  

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Junior doctors to stage longest strike in NHS history after talks break down
1 year ago

Junior doctors to stage longest strike in NHS history after talks break down

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Health and Social Care Secretary Victoria Atkins said the …

Junior doctors to strike for three days before Christmas holidays
1 year ago

Junior doctors to strike for three days before Christmas holidays

The Telegraph  

Junior doctors have announced a strike covering the three days before the Christmas holidays after failing to reach a deal with the Government. Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary, said striking doctors were “risking patient safety” during the busy winter period. “It is disappointing that, despite significant progress, the BMA junior doctors’ committee have walked away from negotiations and declared new …

Health Secretary tells of ‘respect’ for junior doctors before strike talks
1 year ago

Health Secretary tells of ‘respect’ for junior doctors before strike talks

The Independent  

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NHS strike breakthrough as consultants’ union agrees new pay deal with government
1 year ago

NHS strike breakthrough as consultants’ union agrees new pay deal with government

The Independent  

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Consultants reach deal with the Government which ‘could end strikes’
1 year ago

Consultants reach deal with the Government which ‘could end strikes’

The Independent  

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UK government reaches a pay deal with senior doctors that could end disruptive strikes
1 year ago

UK government reaches a pay deal with senior doctors that could end disruptive strikes

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s government reached a deal with senior doctors in England that could potentially end a series of disruptive strikes, officials said Monday. The Department of Health and Social Care said it submitted a pay offer to doctors’ unions after weeks of talks, and union leaders agreed to put the proposal to their members for a vote. The British …

Junior doctors to hold talks with Government over NHS England dispute
1 year, 2 months ago

Junior doctors to hold talks with Government over NHS England dispute

The Independent  

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C-sections are being CANCELLED due to worst ever NHS strikes as £130,000-a-year consultants and junior doctors bring hospitals to a 'standstill' with 72-hour walk-out
1 year, 2 months ago

C-sections are being CANCELLED due to worst ever NHS strikes as £130,000-a-year consultants and junior doctors bring hospitals to a 'standstill' with 72-hour walk-out

Daily Mail  

***Have YOU been affected by the 72-hour strike? Email [email protected] *** The British Medical Association was today accused of threatening to withdraw even emergency care unless hospitals cancelled all elective appointments during the 72-hour strike by consultants and junior doctors. Pictured medics on the picket line outside University College Hospital today 'As you will already be aware, the BMA’s legal …

NHS hospitals 'are paying doctors up to £7,900 a shift to cover striking colleagues who are ''ripping off'' the health service'
1 year, 2 months ago

NHS hospitals 'are paying doctors up to £7,900 a shift to cover striking colleagues who are ''ripping off'' the health service'

Daily Mail  

Doctors are getting paid up to £7,900 a shift by hospitals to cover for striking staff, a freedom of information request has revealed. Fresh industrial action by doctors and consultants this week is set to see services reduced to levels usually seen on Christmas Day again with nearly all routine care cancelled, as they are joined by dentists and radiographers …

NHS strikes: What ails UK health service? Doctors’ protests or budget cuts?
1 year, 2 months ago

NHS strikes: What ails UK health service? Doctors’ protests or budget cuts?

Al Jazeera  

UK doctors have begun a 72-hour strike to demand pay rise and better working conditions amid cost of living crisis. Consultants and junior doctors – who form 80 percent of hospital doctors – began the 72-hour strike at 7am on Monday, as the ruling Conservative Party convened for its annual meeting in Manchester. Last year, junior doctors were offered an …

Junior doctors across England continue strike action
1 year, 3 months ago

Junior doctors across England continue strike action

The Independent  

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England’s National Health Service operates on holiday-level staffing as doctors’ strike escalates
1 year, 3 months ago

England’s National Health Service operates on holiday-level staffing as doctors’ strike escalates

Associated Press  

LONDON — Britain’s state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England on Wednesday as doctors in the early stages of their careers joined their more senior colleagues in their first-ever joint strike action. Tens of thousands of so-called junior doctors walked off the job for the sixth time since last December in an escalation of their increasingly bitter …

We are targeting Tory conference, admits doctors’ union
1 year, 3 months ago

We are targeting Tory conference, admits doctors’ union

The Telegraph  

A consultant leading the doctors’ strikes has admitted they are “targeting the Government’s party conference”. Dr Vishal Sharma, the chairman of the BMA’s consultants committee, admitted doctors were targeting the conference “because it’s only the Government who can allow us to meet and end this dispute”. They will be at the Conservative Party conference, and that’s why we will be …

Hospital services in the UK come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike again
1 year, 4 months ago

Hospital services in the UK come to a standstill as thousands of senior doctors strike again

Associated Press  

LONDON — Hospital care across England largely came to a standstill on Thursday as senior doctors launch another 48-hour strike amid an ongoing pay dispute between medics and the British government. Thousands of hospital doctors say they will only provide emergency care, and the National Health Service warned patients to expect major disruption during the two-day strike. Thursday’s action is …

Scottish Government offers to mediate junior doctor strike talks
1 year, 4 months ago

Scottish Government offers to mediate junior doctor strike talks

The Independent  

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Union leader urges PM to return ‘to real world’ to settle doctors’ pay dispute
1 year, 4 months ago

Union leader urges PM to return ‘to real world’ to settle doctors’ pay dispute

The Independent  

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Doctors in England walk off job again as pay dispute with UK government shows no progress
1 year, 4 months ago

Doctors in England walk off job again as pay dispute with UK government shows no progress

Associated Press  

LONDON — Tens of thousands of doctors in England walked off the job Friday for another four-day stretch, with growing concerns that their bitter pay dispute with the British government will drag on into the winter. The British Medical Association, which represents the approximately 75,000 junior doctors, has been asking for a 35% pay bump to get pay back to …

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