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BMA urges medics to accept Scottish pay deal
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, as they take to picket lines for six days during their continuing dispute over pay, January 3, 2024
THE British Medical Association (BMA) in Scotland has recommended members agree to a pay deal approaching an 11 per cent rise struck with the Scottish government.
The package, worth £64.1 million, will see resident doctors and dentists in training win an 8.5 per cent increase backdated to April this year, and a further 2.3 per cent rise from this month.
Despite ongoing concerns over long-term pay erosion, a meeting of the BMA’s Scottish resident doctors committee have now agreed to put it to the membership with a recommendation to accept.
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