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Striking Welsh junior doctors say more pay erosion would be ‘absolute kick in the teeth’
Junior doctors on the picket line at Cardiff's University Hospital. Union members across Wales are starting a three-day walkout over pay as the Welsh Government and hospital leaders warned of the pressures health services are under, January 15, 2024
FURTHER pay erosion would be “an absolute kick in the teeth” for junior doctors in Wales, their union said today as they began a three-day strike.
Thousands of medics walked out after the British Medical Association (BMA) rejected a 5 per cent pay offer from the Welsh government.
Junior doctors being paid as little as £13.65 an hour — 81 per cent of the national average salary — told how they feel undervalued by the NHS today.
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