We’ve been in talks with the Government since our strike action over the summer. Pay restoration remains essential, but we know many resident doctors are now struggling to find work because of a lack of speciality training places.
To get this on the table, alongside pay, we’ve launched an additional, linked dispute about the shortage of specialty training places.
We have also made significant progress on finalising commitments around exception reporting and pay protection, as agreed in last year’s pay deal.
Ballot results
Turnout: 55.32%
Entitled to vote: 53,766
Number of votes: 29,741
Yes votes: 26,766 (90.05%)
No votes: 2,956 (9.95%)
Spoiled or invalid ballots: 19
Bringing the training places crisis into our pay dispute
Throughout this dispute, the BMA has heard serious concerns about resident doctors being able to secure a job in the future.
According to our recent 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 coming up.
The BMA is currently balloting FY1 members on whether to take strike action over the issue. The ballot will close at noon on Monday 6 October.
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.
A brief history of our campaign
After 11 rounds of historic strike action, we reached a deal with Government in September 2024 that started a journey towards pay restoration.
But the deal with Government was just the first step.
Campaign resources
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