Resident doctors’ 29% pay claim is non-negotiable, BMA chair says | Doctors

The new leader of the medical profession, 29% payment request of resident doctors for NHS can not be bargained, reasonable and easily affordable, he said.

The new Council President of the British Medical Association. According to Tom Dolphin, the resident – former Junior – guarantees that 29% of doctors in the UK provide exactly 29% of it last for years.

The Association of Doctors will not negotiate or accept a lower figure on a lower figure, because this is the scope of the loss of earnings that resident doctors have suffered since 2008-Dolphin, Guardian, told Guardian in his first interview last month.

The advisor Dolphin, anesthesia, said, 29% of the demand is based on a principle for negotiation. “If we choose a different number, it doesn’t get this payment restoration. So it doesn’t look flexible.”

Dolphin blamed the five -day strike, which tens of thousands of resident doctors planned to take the stage of Health Secretary Wes Streeting later this month, and gave a 22% wage increase for two years last year, but this year did not follow 29% of the claim to take into account a reward. He said that the 120 -hour strike would be caused by their fault, not theirs.

Dolphin said: “Our expectation [22%] It would be the beginning of a journey that would continue until we reached the value we had in 2008. So, clearly, the return of value stopped and now he’s just walking in place. And we have to continue this journey.

“IT [29%] reasonable because it is based on our depreciation. The number is great because [previous] When we said that this was a problem, governments ignored BMA as a series. “

Ministers are afraid that a series of renewed strikes may encourage demand for major salary increases to other NHS personnel and public sector employees and may cause destruction in NHS.

Dolphin said that doctors were betrayed by the street and the government that only 5.4% were offered this year and that the reform promised to the wages of doctors and dentists who advised ministers did not lead to increases reflecting the value of health officials.

The street and the BMA are in a dead end and are increasingly locked in a more angry word war. The streeting claimed that the government would not reconsider the 5.4% increase in salary increased for 2025-26, and that it would call 29% allegations as “completely unreasonable .. However, the union said that the members will continue to walk until 29%.

Dolphin presented a potential way to avoid a six -month strike campaign, and in an agreement spreading in the next three years, doctors were ideally “flexible için in achieving 29% of their goals.

“A few percent [more than the 5.4% already awarded] This year, more percent next year [and] The next year, Dol Dolphin said. However, even though it seems, they are flexible about it. “

The resident doctors rejected the 5.4% award, although the highest given to any public sector workers, because it did not contain the “restoration element ..

Dolphin accused the Minister of BMA for refusing to meet and using “emotional language ,, for example, to say that neither the people nor the claim would not forgive them for strikingly.

In an interview with LBC on Thursday, the streeting suggested that doctors agreed to make a less suitable NHS pension for a higher wage during their careers, which could provide a basis for discussing their financial demands.

However, Dolphin insisted that he could meet NHS’s demands. 29 % full payment restoration of the gross cost of $ 1.73 billion, although the tax system returned to the treasury via 920 million pounds of £ 920, he said. Authorized, £ 920 million, this year, NHS’nin 190.8 billion of £ £ 190.8 percent of the budget is less than half, he added.

“A small part of the budget. [29%] It sounds like a large number, but in fact, it is put into the context of all NHS, not a big total compared to this. ”

Between March 2023 and July 2024, Junior Doctors staged 11 strikes in a total of 44 -day industrial action.

Dolphin said the latest strikes could continue for years. “This campaign has already been going on for several years. We are determined to get the restoration of the wage that doctors deserve, and how long to do it is dependent on the Foreign Minister,” he said.

Dolphin said that 29% of the demand would ultimately be good for NHS and that it would be good because it will motivate doctors and reduce the likelihood of moving them abroad.

Hospitals Group NHS Confederation, the strike of the government waiting for hospital treatment 92% of the promise of 18 weeks until 2029 will weaken the promise, he said.

Rory Deighton, Director of the Acute Network, said that NHS UK’s latest monthly accumulation of maintenance accumulation in the latest monthly performance figures on Thursday was proven, and the waiting periods have improved.

However, in order to meet the ambitions of the government… If resident doctors drop vehicles and go on strike, they will be more difficult, because tens of thousands of appointments and operations – including other personnel – including consultants – can be canceled because they are directed to cover the staff gaps. ”

Prof. Dr. Prof Robert Winston, who pioneered the fertility treatments in England last night, left BMA after more than 60 years as a member, and “extremely dangerous” strikes would harm the people’s trust in the profession.

84 -year -old Winston told Times: orum I feel very strong that there is no time to be striking.

“Strike action completely ignores the fragility of the people in front of you. Doctors need to remind you that they have a scared and suffering when they are a patient. It is important that doctors take their responsibility much more seriously.”

Instead, the Minister called on BMA to work with ministers to negotiate solutions with the government, such as “terrible” working conditions and improvements in night shifts.

NHS bosses did not agree with Dolphin’s words. Danny Mortimer, General Manager of NHS employers, represents NHS confidence in wage negotiations with trade unions: ız Our members will not define the quality of the response of BMA from this government or the challenging realities of the public sector and NHS financing ”.

The Ministry of Health and Social Care, Dolphin’s words showed that BMA is “unreasonable and irresponsible”.

A spokesman said: “The Foreign Minister was clear that his gate was open to discussion on a series of issues that would improve their working lives with BMA.

“It is unreasonable and irresponsible for BMA to refuse to even refuse to talk when they threaten the strike action that will have a serious impact on patients and other NHS personnel.