Kate Bowie , 2025-07-23 13:50:00
Resident doctors will take to the picket lines this Friday, after talks between the BMA and the government failed to resolve the ongoing pay dispute.
The BMA confirmed that a five day strike would go ahead after the health secretary, Wes Streeting, failed to make a “significant offer.”1 Union officials said that there was “no choice other than to continue with planned action” after what they called a lack of any substantive proposal on both pay and non-pay elements.
The BMA’s Resident Doctors Committee co-chairs, Melissa Ryan and Ross Nieuwoudt, said that they “came to talks in good faith, keen to explore real solutions to the problems facing resident doctors today. Unfortunately, we did not receive an offer that would meet the scale of those challenges.”
They added that the BMA’s demands for resident doctors’ pay to be restored to 2008 levels had …