Junior doctors accept 22% pay rise to end strikes
Health / Tue 17th Sep 2024 at 08:03am
JUNIOR doctors in England have accepted the government’s offer of a 22% pay rise over two years, ending their long-running dispute reports the BBC.
Members of the British Medical Association backed the deal with 66% voting in favour. Nearly 46,000 took part in the online ballot.
It brings to an end the 18-month dispute, which saw junior doctors take part in 11 separate strikes.
But the BMA warned it expected more above-inflation pay rises in future years or there would be “consequences”.
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gary roberts
2024-09-17 08:27:33
This country is/was recognised around the globe for two things: the BBC and the NHS and in my view the NHS much higher than the BBC. This pay award to the NHS doctors is I believe recognition of that and shows to the people of this country how important health is to everyone and linked to everything else they do in life. The Conservatives tried and failed to destroy it. The Labour party shouldn't try to do the same by using the private sector.
David3
2024-09-17 11:44:03
Everyone in the country should get a 20%+ pay rise. Inflation has way overtaken people's pay. Your salary is not worth anything near as much as it was 10 years ago. Even in the past couple of years we've seen goods & services rise by upwards of 15-20% minimum. Those economic conditions were caused by the government and the Bank of England's decision to introduce quantitative easing - in other words print additional money and push it into the system. This immediately devalues the currency and so you can no longer buy with it what you could before. Yes it was done to pay for the corona virus costs but that is not the point. Everyone in the country is out of pocket as a result. Big time. Prices went up on a grand scale and have not come down.
Guy Flegman
2024-09-17 13:37:29
Don’t worry, they will just tap the pensioners to pay for it. Oh and the nhs is not the envy of the world and never has been, and the bbc is just state television in the eyes of other countries.
Gary Roberts
2024-09-17 18:23:38
Mr Flegman you are wrong. As the NHS proved again today for me.
David Forman
2024-09-17 22:12:53
Guy Flegman is correct in part as many researchers have noted worsening NHS performance, including the King's Fund and LSE in 2018 and Labour's Lord Darzi report published this month. Both Kings/LSE and Darzi blame the cause on the 2012 Health and Social Care Act initiated by Andrew Lansley. This introduced widespread organisational change, plus a large and complex structure with overlapping responsibilities that also created vulnerabilities in public health. The King's report gives credit to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for trying to ameliorate the worst of Lansley's reforms. See King's report at https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/reports/nhs-under-coalition-government-reform
David Forman
2024-09-17 22:41:25
A detailed description of the effects of the 2012 NHS reforms is given on pages 22/23 of the King's Fund report and highlights how dismantling the old Strategic Health Authorities has harmed joint working between commissioners and providers in a region to improve patient care (this on page 23). A good number of talented and experienced professionals were lost due to redundancies. Detail: "By taking three years to dismantle the old structures and reassemble them into new ones, the government took scarce time and expertise away from efforts to address these pressures. Although it is not possible to demonstrate a causal relationship with NHS performance, it seems likely that the massive organisational changes that resulted from the reforms contributed to widespread financial distress and failure to hit key targets for patient care. The complexity of the new structures that resulted from the 2012 Act has proved equally damaging. An unwieldy organisation has emerged from debates on the reforms and compromises made along the way in what can best be likened to a Heath Robinson construct. Nowhere has this been more apparent than at the centre of the system, where the leadership previously provided by the Department of Health has been fractured and distributed between several organisations, each overseeing part of the NHS but none responsible for the whole. Changes to the regulation of provision added to the complexity of the new structures. These changes affected both CQC and Monitor in particular, with their overlapping responsibilities for the quality of care, governance and leadership. Not only were providers put under more pressure as greater emphasis was placed on regulation, but also there were concerns about the impact of reporting requirements and duplication of roles. This was noted in the 2013 Berwick report on patient safety, which stated unequivocally that: 'The current regulatory system is bewildering in its complexity and prone to both overlaps and gaps between different agencies. It should be simplified.’ Complexity was also evident in the NHS itself, with responsibility for commissioning shared between NHS England, CCGs and commissioning support units, alongside the new role for local authorities in commissioning public health. Responsibility for providing care continued to be split between NHS foundation trusts (overseen by Monitor) and NHS trusts (overseen by the newly created NHS Trust Development Authority). Care was also provided by a number of NHS mutuals that were established when community services separated from PCTs. A range of new organisations co-existed with NHS commissioners and providers, including health and wellbeing boards, academic health science networks, clinical senates, and clinical networks – not to forget local education and training boards overseen by Health Education England."
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