{"id":261917,"date":"2025-11-14T06:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261917\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:47:12","slug":"resident-doctors-begin-13th-strike-as-pay-dispute-in-england-conitnues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261917\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident doctors begin 13th strike as pay dispute in England conitnues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest walkout comes after Health Secretary Wes Streeting launched arguably his strongest attack on the BMA.<\/p>\n

Addressing a conference of health managers this week, he called the union “morally reprehensible” and accused it of acting like a cartel, attempting to hold the public and government to ransom.<\/p>\n

He said doctors had received generous pay rises over the past three years \u2013 worth nearly 30%, bringing average basic salaries to just over \u00a354,000.<\/p>\n

Talks between him and the union broke down last week after the BMA turned down a fresh offer to end the dispute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Streeting has maintained throughout the year that he could not negotiate on pay, but he proposed a deal that would see out-of-pocket expenses like exam fees and membership fees covered, along with a boost in speciality training places.<\/p>\n

But the BMA has argued that, despite the pay rises, resident doctors’ pay is still a fifth lower than it was in 2008, once inflation is taken into account.<\/p>\n

The union has also warned doctors are struggling to find jobs at a key stage of their training \u2013 between years two and three when they start speciality training.<\/p>\n

This year there were more than 30,000 applicants for 10,000 jobs at this stage, although some will have been doctors from abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest walkout comes after Health Secretary Wes Streeting launched arguably his strongest attack on the BMA. Addressing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-261917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}