Senior Doctors in England Accept Pay Offer, Ending Strikes
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Consultants in England have voted to accept the government’s improved pay offer, with 83% voting in favour of a deal that will also see reforms to the pay review body, the DDRB.
The deal, which will be backdated to 1 March 2024, will see most consultants receive pay uplifts of between 2.85% and 12.80% in addition to the previously announced 6% pay award for 2023-24.1 Both the BMA and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association had recommended that their members accept the deal.2
Altogether, 22 700 consultants took part in the BMA referendum from 14 March to 3 April a 61.9% turnout, with 18 778 (82.7%) voting in favour of the offer and 3922 (17.3%) against. The acceptance of the deal by the BMA’s Consultants Committee ends the current dispute with the government, which has lasted for over a year.
This comes after consultants narrowly rejected a pay deal in January, when just over half (51.1%) voted against it because of concerns about the fairness of the pay offer, e
Senior doctors in England have accepted a pay offer from the British government that ends a yearlong dispute. The British Medical Association and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, which represent the doctors, said Friday that 83% of those casting a vote backed the offer. The pay increases will see some consultants at the lower end of the scale get a nearly 20% boost for the last financial year. Doctors at the early stages of their careers, who form the backbone of hospital and clinical care as they train up to be specialists in a particular field, remain in dispute with the government
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