BMA Calls For Negotiations Following Pay Cut For Junior Doctors, UK

The BMA has requested an urgent meeting with NHS employers to open negotiations with junior doctors. The move follows this week’s announcement of below-inflation pay awards for hospital doctors. The BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee was particularly angered by the refusal of the doctors’ pay review body to recommend a compensatory uplift for first year junior doctors, who have lost their right to live on hospital premises free of charge from this year.

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Filed under: Primary Care on April 11th, 2008