Overview
- Resident doctors in England will walk out from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November in their ongoing dispute over jobs and pay.
- Wes Streeting’s package offered to fund mandatory exam and medical royal college membership fees plus add 2,000 specialty training places over three years, with half to start this year.
- The health secretary set a 24-hour deadline for acceptance and warned he would withdraw the non-pay offer if strikes go ahead, citing an estimated £240 million cost to the NHS per round of action.
- BMA resident doctors chair Dr Jack Fletcher said the plan "does not go far enough," pointing to roughly 30,000 applicants for 10,000 training posts and seeking a multi-year pay deal.
- Streeting ruled out further headline pay increases due to fiscal pressures and called the rejection a "missed opportunity" as NHS leaders prepare to limit disruption to patients.