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Originally Posted by Damien
A pay agreement was going to happen eventually it's just that there is no budget allocated for that when it did.
It's also not in practice a sudden jump of 22%. That's from when negotiations started. So it's some backdated pay, £1000 bonus, and a 5% real-terms increase in the take-home pay from now on. It's structured in a way that's quite hard to understand.
But their pay has also been suppressed for years which is what they're arguing about. What they want is 'full pay restoration' relative to 2008. I.E They want to be paid the same had they had pay increases relative to inflation since then.
The BMA sent them this graph to show where their salaries now are:
This 22% doesn't put them on silly money relative to where their salaries have historically been. It's still lower than many countries.
You can't realistically keep eroding doctors' pay making them work for less and less in real terms and expect people to keep becoming Doctors or going abroad when they do. |
A budget would've already included what was on offer, so the whole 22% hasn't come from nowhere. Just as all of the 5.5% to the public sector hasn't come from nowhere.
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The salary for Junior Doctors isn't the end of their income.
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And that is just the basic pay. Junior doctors, like other NHS staff, receive extras on top and these can be worth 25% to 30% more for things such as unsocial hours and additional work. The junior doctor contract stipulates that they can be asked to work up to 48 hours a week rather than the standard 40.
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