Junior doctors take to Westminster to protest on pay and urge strike action

Hundreds of doctors marched from the Department of Health and Social Care offices to Downing Street on 25 July to protest about their pay and call for industrial action.The demonstration—which brought together leaders from the BMA, the Doctors’ Association UK, and the newly formed Doctors Vote campaign—saw junior doctors and medical students express their anger and frustration at the government’s decision to leave juniors out of the 4.5% pay uplift announced for other eligible doctors, such as consultants and salaried GPs.Although junior doctors are covered by a multiyear deal agreed in 2019 that guaranteed an 8.2% rise in pay over four years, the BMA has said that excluding them after they have worked through the pandemic and at a time of huge rises in inflation is a “betrayal of the profession.” BMA calculations show that pay awards for junior doctors in England from 2008-09 to 2021-22 have provided a real…
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