NHS resident doctors protesting outside Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, during a five-day strike after talks with the government collapsed over pay, July 25, 2025
RESIDENT doctors in England have voted to continue industrial action for another six months as part of their ongoing row over pay and jobs.
Some 53 per cent eligible members took part in a ballot to continue industrial action, with 93 per cent voting yes, the British Medical Association (BMA) announced today.
The union urged the government to act to prevent further strikes.
Dr Jack Fletcher, chairman of the BMA’s resident doctors committee, said: “None of this needs to mean more strikes.
“In recent weeks, the government has shown an improved approach in tone compared with the name-calling we saw late last year.
“A deal is there to be done: a new jobs package and an offer raising pay fairly over several years can be worked out through good will on both sides, in the interests of patients, staff and the whole NHS.
“And now that the mandate for strike action is confirmed for six months, the government has nowhere to run and no means of running out the clock.”
The Department for Health and Social Care said “intensive and constructive discussions” with the BMA resident doctors committee have taken place since the start of the new year.
