Health Secretary and Bma to Meet Next Week

Talks Between Health Secretary Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association (BMA) will take place next week in a bid to avert strike action in England’s nHS, the BBC UNDERSSTANDS, the BBC UNDERSTANDS.

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The BMA said strikses would only be called off next week’s talks produce an offer it can put to its members.

The government has been insisted it cannot improve its offer of a 5.4% Increase for this year.

Resident Doctors Were Awarded A 5.4% pay Rise for this Financial Year – Which will go into pay packets from August – Following a 22% Increase over the previous two years.

But they are arguing that pay in real terms is still around 20% lower than it was in 2008 and have called for the government to set out a path up a pathway to restoring its value.

They believe that this year’s 5.4% Increase does not take them far enough down that path.

Health department sources have told the bbc the health secretary is sympathetic to improving work conditions for resident doctors, but he won’t budge on salarys.

After the BMA’s Strike Announcement, Streeting Called The Strike “Unnecessary and Unreasonable”, Adding: “The nhs is hanging by a thread – bey on the threating to pull it?”

He said the government was “ready and willing” to work with the bma, but any further strike action would be a disaster for patients and push back the progress made in reviewing lists in englands.

BMA Resident Doctor Committee Co-CHIARS, Dr Melissa Ryan and Dr Ross NieuWOdt, said on wedding on their had ben left with “no chout to strike with Restore our pay “.

Lord Robert Winston, A Professor and TV Doctor who was a pioneer of IVF treatment, resigned from the bma on Friday over the plans.

In an interview with the time, he Urged Against Strike Action and said it could damage People’s trust in the profession.

Resident Doctors Took Part in 11 Separate Strikes during 2023 and 2024.

In order to end the previous strikes last year the Incoming Labor Government Awarded a Backdated Increase Worth 22% Over Two Years.

The action in england will not affect Resident Doctors in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, Who Negotiate Directly with Their Devolved Governments on Pay.

Resident Doctors’ Basic Salaries in England Range from £ 37,000 to £ 70,000 a year for a 40-his week, depending on Experience, with extra payments for working nightshifts and whitends.

That does not include the latest 5.4% average pay award for this year which will start to be paid into wage packets from August.