Resident doctors – who used to be called junior doctors – make up about 42% of all Scotland’s doctors and range from newly qualified doctors to those with 10 years or more experience.<\/p>\n
Members will now consider an offer of a 4.25% pay rise in 2025-26, followed by a 3.75% increase in 2026-27.<\/p>\n
The pay deal offered by the Scottish government matches one already accepted by nurses and other healthcare staff, and was previously rejected by the BMA last year.<\/p>\n
However it now comes alongside a separate package of contractual reform.<\/p>\n
The offer would see the basic pay for a newly qualified doctor rise from \u00a334,500 to \u00a337,345 for 2026\/27 and for a doctor with 10 years experience rise from \u00a371,549 to \u00a377,387.<\/p>\n
The BMA said the added contractual investment package would move all resident doctors in Scotland up the pay scale, meaning the combined offer is equivalent to an average end-of-year pay uplift for 2025\/26 of 9.9% and for 2026\/27 of 9.4%. <\/p>\n
Resident doctors would receive different levels of increase at different stages, depending on what point they were at in their career.<\/p>\n
Gray said the deal had been struck following “days of intensive and constructive talks” between the government and the union.<\/p>\n
He added that total investment in the offer – covering both pay and contract reform over the two-year period – will be \u00a3133m.<\/p>\n
He said: “This avoids the cancelled operations and disruption to patient care that no one, including resident doctors, wanted to see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resident doctors – who used to be called junior doctors – make up about 42% of all Scotland’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-361249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361249","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=361249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}