Junior doctors accept government pay offer, ending NHS’s longest industrial dispute

Junior doctors have accepted the government’s pay offer by 66 per cent, marking the end of the most prolonged industrial dispute in the history of the NHS.

Following this new deal, a newly qualified doctor starting foundation training in the NHS will now receive a basic salary of £36,600, compared to around
£32,400 prior to the agreement.

Beyond pay increases, the government and junior doctors agreed to work together to resolve wider issues affecting the workforce, including training and rotational
placements.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting made resolving the strikes his top priority, holding talks with the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) junior
doctors committee on his first day in office.

Streeting expressed his relief that the offer was agreed upon within weeks, ending the strikes ahead of looming winter pressures on the NHS.