Hospitals are preparing for a new round of strikes by resident doctors looking for a 29 % increase in wages, amid warnings that stopping may lead to hundreds of thousands of dates and operations that are canceled.
NHS leaders are afraid of resident doctors ’voting, former junior doctors in EnglandWhich is closed on Monday will result in a majority of support for industrial work.
If so, the health service will face a long disruption of tens of thousands of doctors residing in organizing a series of strikes in an attempt to secure 29 % salaries. Huge numbers of external dates and procedures were canceled when novice physicians hit a total of 44 days between March 2023 and July 2024.
Shortly after the Labor Party took power last year, Wes Street, the Minister of Health, gave them a 22 % increase in salaries 2023-24 and 2024-25, which ended their stoppage. But they threaten after six months of strikes, from this month to the next winter until January 2026, after they were granted 5.4 % in wages for this year The highest in the public sector.
The British Medical Association, which is proposing with the 55,000 resident doctors, described the amount “absorption” and “sadly not enough.” They say they deserve 29 % increase in the next few years to ensure that resident doctors get “full wage restoration” to make up for a 23 % loss of their salaries since 2008.
The outcome of the poll is expected to be on Tuesday. If BMA members vote for beating again, this will make it difficult for the government to reduce accumulation for hospital treatment and restore the time of waiting time for 18 weeks by 2029-major. NHS He undertakes.
The street is very concerned about the effect of voting yes. He asked the resident doctors Sean strikes. “We cannot return to a continuous cycle of confrontations, strikes and cancellation,” he wrote in The Times in May.
“The last health leaders want to conduct more industrial procedures, which will likely lead to strike after a series of hundreds of hundreds, for thousands of appointments and operations that are canceled,” said Danny Mortimer, CEO of NHS employers, who represents 215 health funds in England in annual wage negotiations with NHS employees.
He added: “While we fully understand the real grievances that doctors residing on their salaries, circumstances and training, the strike will have a major impact on NHS and the sick.”
Rachel Power, CEO of the Patient Society, said it had supported the right to strike but hopes to avoid stopping. “with A 10 -year health plan I promised to rebuild NHS and restore public confidence, we must ask how this can be achieved amid the risk of continuing industrial work. The government and BMA must find a solution urgently. “
Hospital heads of the polls were recently increased when Dr. Ross Newodit, the co -chair of the Human Rights Doctors Committee, has been increased, The members said “excited” on the possibility of the strike again.
“In general, and what we hear in general, the vast majority of people are excited to go again. In the end, doctors are still very upset and are looking for change.”
Newud and his co -chairman, Dr. Melissa Rayan, urged members to vote yes. They said: “By voting yes, they will tell the government that there is no alternative to stabilizing wages. This cannot wait for different financial conditions and NHS is more healthier.”
Daniel Elclis, CEO of NHS providers at the Hospital Group, said the strikes will lead to funds “dealing with disorder instead of devoting all their time to improve patient care.
He added: “Through a governmental review of the resident doctors, this will help us to return to the resident doctors who feel as much as we can contribute to the success of NHS.”
to divide health “We want to work constructively with all unions to avoid disrupting services to patients. The Foreign Minister has always been clear to his priority to avoid a strike and met with the paradise of doctors residing on his first day in the government,” said social welfare spokesman.
“We are on a trip to improve the conditions for resident doctors, and they have received a 28.9 % increase over the past three years. Our health plan for 10 years will also cut the bureaucracy through health service, which reduces the exhausting administrative tasks and benefit from technology so that doctors can spend time on what they do better-patient care.”
