GMB is set to ballot members working for the British Medical Association (BMA) after rejecting a pay offer made during Acas talks.

The union said today that the revised offer still fell short of their pay claim and represented another year of real-terms pay cuts for most of its professional and executive members.

A spokesperson for the doctors’ union said that its latest offer for 2.75 per cent, plus an additional £1,000 consolidated uplift for lower pay grades, “puts the association at the very limit of keeping” its financial recovery plan “on track to give the BMA a sound financial footing for the future.”

GMB, which represents more than 75 per cent of BMA staff, highlighted Companies House filings that show BMA Group’s post-tax profits of £15.4 million and a group director on £341,000.

A GMB rep working for the BMA said: “We just want to be treated fairly.”