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Doctors’ pay demands aren’t just unaffordable, they’re undeserved

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11.07.2025

LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 27: Former leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, meets striking junior doctors protest outside St Thomas’ Hospital on day one of the British Medical Association (BMA) strike action on June 27, 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Junior doctors, who are members of the BMA, are striking in the final week before Britain goes to the polls. Despite receiving an 8.8% pay rise last summer and an additional 3% offer, the BMA rejected the 3% offer as it doesn’t compensate for the over 25% loss in real-term pay over the past 15 years. The BMA is demanding full pay restoration to reverse these real-term cuts since 2008-09, along with a new pay mechanism to prevent future pay decreases due to inflation and the cost of living. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Resident doctors are endangering their patients’ lives with immoral strikes based on distorted calculations. The British public must finally see their militant union for what it really is, says Alys Denby

“Resident doctors” as we must now call them (‘junior’ being a term fit for barristers but far too demeaning for these life savers) will walk out for five days from 25 July. This will cause as many as 200,000 appointments to be cancelled – meaning cancer diagnoses delayed, longer waiting lists and agony prolonged for thousands of........

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