Overview

• Resident doctors concluded a five-day strike this week and retain a legal mandate to stage further walkouts until January 2025
• The Royal College of Nursing voted by 91% against a 3.6% pay award on a record 170,000-member turnout and will ballot for industrial action this summer
• GPs represented by the British Medical Association have laid out six demands to be met by mid-September to avert their own strike ballots
• Healthcare workers in the GMB union, including ambulance crews, rejected the 3.6% pay offer by 67% and signal readiness to escalate their dispute
• Health Secretary Wes Streeting says headline pay cannot rise further but is open to negotiating reforms on pay structure, career progression and working conditions