Junior doctors vote to ballot for industrial action

The BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee has voted to go to a ballot on industrial action in early January 2023 after the government failed to respond to its demands over pay and conditions.The vote on 1 October means that junior doctors have entered a trade dispute and will request approval from the BMA’s council to ballot junior doctors in England from around 9 January next year. The form of industrial action will be decided at a later date.The committee said that the government’s “continual failure” to value junior doctors and reverse years of pay erosion had left it with “no choice but to enter a trade dispute.”The committee’s new co-chairs, Robert Laurenson and Vivek Trivedi, said, “Despite being given ample opportunity to do so, the secretary of state has failed to respond to our requests to meet to discuss our concerns. We recognise that the government’s unwillingness to engage with junior…
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