JUNIOR doctors are to be asked if they are prepared to take industrial action over ministers’ refusal to include them in the 3 per cent NHS pay rise, the British Medical Association (BMA) announced today.

The BMA said that the rise was not enough for any section of the NHS staff, but that it would survey the tens of thousands of junior medics in England after they were told to make do with a 2 per cent rise agreed before the pandemic.

The union’s junior doctors’ committee told the government that its failure to recognise their efforts during the pandemic had “devalued the enormous contribution they have made.”