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Resident doctors will go on strike for five days at the end of July, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced They will stage a full walk out from 7am on Friday 25 July until 7am on Wednesday 30 July.
More than 26,000 resident doctors voted in favour of strikes on Tuesday, while just under 3,000 voted against.
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Announcing strike dates across England, the BMA said it was giving the Government two weeks to come to the table to negotiate “a path to pay restoration”.
BMA resident doctors committee co-chairs, Dr Melissa Ryan and Dr Ross Nieuwoudt, said in a statement they had met with Health Secretary Wes Streeting but the Government would not move on pay.
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It said: “We met Wes Streeting yesterday and made every attempt to avoid strike action by opening negotiations for pay restoration.
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“Unfortunately, the Government has stated that it will not negotiate on pay, wanting to focus on non-pay elements without suggesting what these might be.
“Without a credible offer to keep us on the path to restore our pay, we have no choice but to call strikes.
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“No doctor wants to strike, and these strikes don’t have to go ahead.
“If Mr Streeting can seriously come to the table in the next two weeks we can ensure that no disruption is caused.
“The Government knows what is needed to avert strikes. The choice is theirs.”
A Number 10 spokesman said: “We aren’t going to reopen negotiations on pay.
“Resident doctors have received the highest pay award across the public sector for two years in a row, and we’ve been clear that we can’t be more generous than we already have this year.”
Daniel Elkeles, chief executive of NHS Providers, has said: “A return to industrial action would be a huge setback – bad for patients, for staff and for the NHS.”
In September, BMA members voted to accept a Government pay deal worth 22.3% on average over two years.
The 2025/26 pay deal saw resident doctors given a 4% uplift plus ￡750 “on a consolidated basis” – working out as an average pay rise of 5.4%.
The BMA call for a 29.2% uplift is based on Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation, the measure of average changes in the price of goods and services used by most households.
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Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said: “I wrote to the BMA this morning to offer to meet their committee and work with them to improve the working lives of resident doctors. Instead of talking, they’ve announced strikes.
“No trade union in British history has seen its members receive a 28.9% pay rise only to immediately respond with strikes, and the majority of BMA resident doctors didn’t vote to strike.
“This is completely unreasonable. The NHS recovery is hanging by a thread, and the BMA are threatening to pull it. The BMA should abandon their rush to strike and work with us to improve resident doctors working lives instead.”