The move comes after the doctors accepted a pay rise offer totalling 22.3 percent over two years last September, soon after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new Labour government took power.
“We met (Health Secretary) Wes Streeting yesterday and made every attempt to avoid strike action by opening negotiations for pay restoration,“ said the BMA’s Melissa Ryan and Ross Nieuwoudt, co-chairs of the resident doctors committee.
The BMA doctors said the government had refused to negotiate on pay, “wanting to focus on non-pay elements without suggesting what these might be”.
But they added: “There is still a long way to go, with doctors remaining 20.8 percent in real terms behind where we were in 2008.”
The previous Conservative government had resisted the BMA’s demands for a 35-percent “pay restoration” to reflect real-term inflation over the last decade.
Those included a 15 percent pay deal over three years for train drivers which was heavily criticised by the Conservative opposition.
The strike is due to take place for five days from 7:00 am (0600 GMT) on July 25. – AFP
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