'Unconscionable': Junior docs hit again at 'ultimate' pay provide - as union calls for 35%

The authorities has put the UK in an "unconscionable" place by forcing by pay rises on the again of cuts to current budgets, in accordance with the junior docs' union.

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Rishi Sunak has stated the roughly 6% rise in salaries the government will implement throughout the general public sector is a "final" provide, upon which there shall be no negotiation.

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Junior docs will obtain a 6% pay rise, plus £1,250 added to their salaries - equal to a increase of between 8.1% and 10.3% relying on earlier pay packets.

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"We will not negotiate again on this year's settlements, and no amount of strikes will change our decision," Mr Sunak stated.

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This determine falls properly wanting the 35% being demanded by the British Medical Association (BMA) for junior doctors.

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It desires their pay restored to spending parity with the degrees seen in 2008, noting that they've obtained below-inflation raises ever since.

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Young medics are at the moment engaged in a five-day strike, their longest but.

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The prime minister's line-in-the-sand method is "irresponsible and unreasonable", in accordance with Dr Sumi Manirajan, the deputy co-chair of the BMA's junior docs committee.

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She advised Sky News: "This will no doubt contribute to the feeling that junior doctors are experiencing and reporting of not feeling valued."

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The pay will increase for public sector employees

  • Police - 7%
  • NHS - 6%
  • Junior docs - 6% + £1,250 one-off fee
  • Prison officers - 7%
  • Armed Forces - 5% + £1,000 one-off fee
  • Teachers - 6.5%
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Professor Phil Banfield, the chair of the BMA's UK council, stated: "Today's announcement represents yet another pay cut in real terms and serves only to increase the losses faced by doctors after more than a decade's worth of sub-inflation pay awards."

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He added: "Public sector workers are not only working in underfunded services, but they are now being asked to pay for them through further cuts and proposed increased visa costs.

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"The political decisions this authorities is making proceed to make unusual individuals sicker and poorer; that's an unconscionable place for a 'civilised' society to be in."

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said the pay awards across the public sector will require around £5bn in cuts over the next two years.

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Part of this will be funded for education by £880m from government over the next two years, as well as a rise in the immigration health surcharge - paid by people applying to immigrate to the UK.

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The surcharge has raised round £900m up to now 4 years

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The remainder of the cash shall be discovered by "efficiencies" and "rereprioritisation" - which usually means cuts - though Downing Street says many of the cash shall be discovered from "underspends".

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Matthew Taylor, the chief government of the NHS Confederation, stated there was "no fat on the bone" to fund pay rises out of current hospital budgets.

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He advised Channel 4 that any reprioritisation would imply there "will be things we won't be able to do"

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"Patient services will be jeopardised and actually the prime minister's own waiting list pledge will be jeopardised," he added.

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Responding to the BMA, a Downing Street spokesman stated the 35% pay rise can be "simply not fair to taxpayers".

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"From the deal, independenty set by the [pay review bodies], junior doctors will see around a 9% uplift to pay," he stated.

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"Anyone… would think that is a significant increase. Certainly we do and we will not countenance borrowing more money or increasing taxation to go beyond what the independent pay review bodies have recommended."

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Health Secretary Steve Barclay stated: "Of course, my door's open to discuss with the BMA other issues in terms of the quality of work conditions within the NHS and how we best support doctors in training."

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