SAS doctors to be balloted on whether to strike over pay

Specialist, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors in England are to be balloted on whether to take industrial action after the government failed to present them with an offer to improve their pay and working conditions.The decision was made at a meeting of the BMA’s UK SAS committee, which has previously warned it would move forward with an indicative ballot if the government did not produce an offer that meaningfully tackled concerns around pay, career progression, and working conditions. SAS doctors have experienced chronic pay erosion and poor working conditions, leading many to question whether they want to remain in the NHS, said the BMA. In the past 15 years, they’ve seen their real terms pay fall by as much as 31%.In June, the BMA called for the government to stop excluding SAS doctors on contracts signed since 2021 from annual pay uplifts given to those on pre-2021 contracts.1 This…
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