by Local doctors voted again for the 10-year health plan of Wes Streeting.
The doctors, formerly referred to as Junior Doctors, have a new mandate for industrial measures until January 2026, as they require a 29 percent salary increase.
NHS leaders warned that it risked to “endanger” the decisive 10-year plan, which was presented by Sir Keir Starrer last week, which is ambition to transform the NHS into a digital and community-based service with simple access to GPS and dentists.
Mr. Streeting, the health secretary, will meet the leaders of the local doctors on Tuesday afternoon, but the officials said that there were no plans to negotiate this year’s salary increase of 5.4 percent.
Consultants and nurses have also threatened threats about wages and conditions in recent months.
It is less than a year after the residents received a salary increase of 22 percent.
They are now calling for another salary increase of 29 percent to return them to the “real” wage levels of 2008.
Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted 90 percent in favor of more strikes that could start this month.
Around 55 percent of the authorized doctors took part in the vote. With 26,766 members who voted from the 53,766, which were entitled to vote, this means less than half of the strike measures.
Matthew Taylor, the managing director of the NHS Confederation, who represents health organizations, said that the government had set an “ambitious roadmap about how the NHS would bring the need to improve the short -term improvement against long -term reforms”.
However, he said: “Local doctors Downing Tools risk the risk of endangering these two goals because tens of thousands of appointments and operations could be canceled.”
He said strikes would endanger plans to turn around, “the perception that the health service is not available if people need it” and “could lead to further satisfaction of public satisfaction with the NHS”.
Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, announced last month that the NHS would increase a record of £ 29 billion in its expenditure check.
However, the latest increases in NHS financing – as the increase in £ 22.6 billion announced last October – were almost swallowed by salary increases.
With about half of the 190 billion pounds of Stephen in the amount of NHS personnel wages, more about inflation shots for doctors and other employees of those who are necessary to carry out the service will decrease money.
“Still time to avert strikes”
BMA’s local doctor’s committee said Wes Streeting still had time to “avert strike measures” through negotiations.
Dr. Melissa Ryan and Dr. Ross Nieuwoudt, the co-chair, said: “Doctors spoke clearly and spoke clearly: You will not accept that you are worth less than in 2008.”
They said that Mr. Streeting had to “come forward as soon as possible with a credible path to pay the restoration”.
Local doctors received an average salary increase of 5.4 percent for 2025-26, more than any other public sector employee, including nurses and other NHS employees.
The BMA chose around 50,000 local doctors and launched “a new member offer” last month to forego £ 44 per month and to enable doctors to reduce themselves free of charge and free of charge.
The union was also criticized for producing and issuing its election paper before it was told about this year’s award, which means that the leaflets contained inaccurate demands on “under-inflation salary increases”.
Last month, Dr. Nieuwoudt, the “vast majority of people are excited” at another round of the strike campaign.
He also said that the relocation of the 10-year plan to a neighborhood service would fall at the first hurdle if Mr. Streeting would not “pay the doctors properly”.
Consultants and specialists are currently pursuing an “indicative ballot” to find out that they appear again on the appetite.
Other strikes throughout the NHS this year threaten to promise Labor to shorten waiting lists and improve the A&E services this winter.
The last round of the strikes comprised 11 separate strikes, which lasted several days between 2022 and 2024 than the residents were connected several times by consultants who later approved their own deal with the government.
Amost 1.5m appointments canceled
NHS England estimated that the strikes led to the fact that almost 1.5 million appointments were canceled or re -planned. Hospitals do not book people with planned measures for days.
The last strike took place on June 27 to July 2, 2024, just a few days before the parliamentary elections. In September, the members of the BMA voted on average over two years to accept a contract with state payment worth 22.3 percent.
The deal included a increase in salary between 3.71 percent and 5.05 percent – an average of 4.05 percent – for local doctors, in addition to an existing Pay Award for 2023/24, which was returned until April 2023.
Each part of the salary scale was increased by 6 percent plus 1,000 GBP, such as the review committee for the remuneration of doctors and dentists (GDRB) with a date of the entry into force of April 1, 2024.
The government has also undertaken to work with the BMA in order to rationally work the work on the local doctors for an additional hour together with reforms for training.
Danny Mortimer, managing director of NHS workers who represents the managers of the healthcare system, said: “Local doctors who, according to the largest series of Pay awards in the public sector for more industrial measures, are a troubling development.”
He said it was the “last thing that wanted health leaders, and could lead to tens of thousands of thousands of operations and procedures that are delayed or canceled, causing the patients to pain or symptoms”.
He asked the junior doctors to “work with trusts and the wider NHS in order to achieve the improvement of the work environment for local doctors who have already been agreed”.
Mr. Mortimer said: “Our members will continue to try to ensure the best possible care and to preserve patient safety during any industrial measures.
“But it is important that the BMA also thinks about the way their last strikes were carried out to see if they can find better answers to inquiries for help.”
A spokesman for the health and social care department said: “While most of the resident doctors in the BMA did not vote for the strike, it is disappointing that the BMA continues to threaten the strike measures in the past three years after a salary increase of 28.9 percent.
“The Foreign Minister was clear that he would like to work constructively with all unions, including the BMA, in order to improve the working conditions for NHS employees and avoid strikes that can be severely annoying for the patients.”
