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Hospital consultants can now join junior doctors take strike Action in a row climb pay with government.
THE British medical association (BMA) warned the government it faces “Have several groups of doctors on stake lines together later this year “ As the union has announced an indicative ballot of senior doctors on their recent remuneration offer.
Consultants and specialists, associated specialists and specialized doctors (SAS) in England will be invited to wonder if they are ready to participate in industrial measures on the 4% salary uprising that many were given in May.
The union said at the time that the rise in wages was not going far enough in the restoration of historic gels, the committees representing these doctors writing to the Secretary of Health Wes Street The appellant to meet for negotiations. However, The BMA said he had not received an answer.
The union therefore announced the indicative election, which will open on July 21 and will close on September 1. Doctors resident in England, officially known as Junior doctorsAre already being voted on the prospect of a strike action, senior doctors are now willing to join them on the strikes.
The co -chairs of the BMA consultant committee, Dr. Helen Neary and Dr Snanu Datta, said in a statement: “The offer last month was an insult to senior doctors and cancels a large part of the progress made last year. The 4% were lower than the inflation of the RPI in April, not to mention the end of the bump in the huge salary reductions that consultants have suffered in the past 17 years.
“Without restoring the value of consultants, we will continue to distance our clinical leaders and the most experienced academics – in many cases to pay better and better the conditions abroad – when patients and the public need it most.
“We have been clear to the government that we are ready to bypass the table and get a better result for doctors, patients and the public, but unanswered, we have no choice but to prepare for the possibility of additional action.”
They added: “Our resident colleagues have already launched their ballot, to which we offer them our support in its own right. We ask the government if he can really risk having several groups of doctors on stake lines later this year.”
The president of the SAS SAS committee, Dr. Ujjwala Mohite NHSHowever, this year’s “price” of remuneration is not completely due to the value we offer to patients and health services.
“Even with the uprising, SAS PAY will be down almost a quarter in real terms compared to 2008. We are certainly not working a quarter less than 16 years ago.”
A Department of Health and Social Care The spokesman said: “Specialized and associate specialized doctors (SAS) received a salary increase greater than 4% inflation, after the 6% remuneration price of last year, which means that the departure salary for a consultant is more than £ 20,000 more than in 2023.
“Thanks to the hard work of consultants, SAS doctors and all NHS staff, we have reduced the waiting lists to their lowest level in two years, down almost a quarter of a million since we took office.
“Thanks to our change plan, we want to continue working with doctors to rebuild our NHS in favor of staff and patients.”
