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Pay restoration for resident doctors in England

We’re in talks with the Government. Updates to follow soon. 

Where we’re at now

 

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. 

 

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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. 

Read more

 

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

 

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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.

Read the details of that deal

But the deal with Government was just the first step.

 

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Campaign resources

Download campaign materials.