Junior doctors secure a 22% pay increase, but union warns of further strikes if pay erodes
FURTHER junior doctors’ strikes could be on the cards if Health Secretary Wes Streeting “overpromises and underdelivers” next year, a leading medic indicated today.
Junior doctors in England have voted to accept a pay deal after staging 44 days of strikes since October 2022.
The doctors had taken industrial action after suffering more than a decade of real-terms pay cuts.
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