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.