There will be a strike from 7 a.m. on June 27 to 2 p.m. on July 2.
This indicates that the disagreement conflicts with the general election campaign and the July 4 polling day.
Recently, negotiations had resumed with the aim of resolving the protracted wage dispute between government and trainee medics.
Following the announcement of the July 4 election, the British Medical Association (BMA) stated that it provided the government with “a final opportunity to make an offer and avoid strikes,” but “this opportunity has not been taken up.”
The junior physicians committee co-chairs of the British Medical Association, Drs. Robert Laurenson and Vivek Trivedi, stated:
We told the administration up front that we would go on strike if negotiations did not result in a solid offer of compensation.
“We have been requesting Rishi Sunak to submit recommendations for more than 18 months in order to reinstate the salary that young doctors have lost over the last 15 years—more than a quarter in actual terms.
We believed we had a functioning government that would shortly be making an offer when we entered mediation with the government this month.
There is obviously no offer coming up now. Junior physicians are impatient and tired.
