It is understood that while the gap between Barclay and the BMA over what size of pay increase junior doctors should receive is still wide, both are keen to explore ways of ending the dispute. He has accused them of adopting “a militant stance” and of deliberately maximising the disruption they cause to the NHS by holding their last strike at a time when many senior doctors were on leave and so unable to cover their shifts. They have staged two stoppages so far in pursuit of their goal of “full pay restoration”, forcing hospitals to postpone several hundred thousand outpatient appointments and operations.īarclay has described their claim as unrealistic and unreasonable. Junior doctors in England want a 35% pay rise to make up for what they estimate to be a 26% cut in their real-terms income since 2008-09. However, two major health unions – the Royal College of Nursing and Unite – plan to continue their respective campaigns of industrial action to try to force Barclay to give them more. Representatives of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee (JDC) met Barclay on Tuesday afternoon for two hours, soon after he had attended a meeting at which the NHS staff council voted by a majority to accept an improved pay offer for this year and the last one for more than 1 million frontline NHS personnel in England.
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