GRASPING union bosses have demanded trainee doctors stop being called “junior” as they threatened to strike again unless they get more pay rises. Leaders at the British Medical Association issued more demands after bagging an eye-watering 22 per cent pay rise from Labour to end strikes on Monday. They now want junior doctors called “resident doctors”, calling the current term “demeaning” and insisting the change “will better reflect their expertise”.
They have called the salary deal – worth £7,000 to £12,000 per year – “modest” and said it is a mere “first step towards our goal” of full pay restoration. It comes after 18 months of strikes that crippled the NHS, with more than 1.5million appointments cancelled and little to no progress on waiting lists .
We expect pay uplifts every year Co-chair of the junior doctors’ committee, Dr Vivek Trivedi, told the BBC: “We will expect pay uplifts each and every year, as we have done in the past. Read more on the NHS crisis “If those pay uplifts don’t occur in a timely fashion we’ll be going to the government. “And if those communications break down , then we will be thinking about going back into dispute and striking again, but that’s always a last resort and something we don’t want to have to do.
” Sir Keir Starmer has insisted the pay settlement does not mean he will cave to future demands and he has promised to be “tough” with unions . But ministers have bowed to the name change and.