Pay restoration for resident doctors in England

Where we're at now

Thanks to our successful FY1 ballot, we are now calling on the Government to address both the erosion to our pay and the speciality training crisis.

We’ve made clear these issues must be addressed together, but the Government has refused our negotiating proposals on pay.

As a result, our committee has voted to take strike action over pay and jobs in England. Resident doctors will be going on strike from 7.00am on 14 November to 6.59am on 19 November.

Bringing the training places crisis into our pay dispute

Throughout our initial dispute with Government, the BMA has heard serious concerns about resident doctors being able to secure a job in the future.

According to a BMA survey, a third of all resident doctor respondents had no role secured from August. For FY2s alone, 52% said they didn’t have any planned substantive employment or regular locum work.

FY1 members have recently voted in favour of taking industrial action over the issue if necessary.

With the Government now refusing to negotiate with us on pay, resident doctors in England will strike over pay and jobs in November and, if necessary, in December.

Resident doctor pay is still down by more than a fifth: enough is enough

With the DDRB award, pay erosion against RPI will be at 21%. Or, put another way, resident doctors are still working more than a fifth of their time for free.

A pay uplift of 26% is needed to reverse it. For more information, please see our pay methodology.