Junior doctors made headlines this week after begrudgingly accepted the government’s pay deal. Two thirds of British Medical Association (BMA) members voted in favour of Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s offer, meaning medics across England will see a 22.3 per cent rise consolidated into their pay. Yet the move hasn’t entirely eased tensions between junior doctors and the government, with co-chair of the BMA Dr Vivek Trivedi insisting that medics will still ‘expect pay uplifts each and every year’.
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