Overview

• The BMA’s resident doctors are voting until July 7 on strike mandates that could run from July 2025 to January 2026.
• The union demands a clear government roadmap to recover real-terms pay lost since 2008.
• Doctors have received 28.9% pay rises over the past three years but say this fails to match inflation.
• Previous walkouts led to roughly 1.5 million cancelled or rescheduled NHS appointments.
• Consultants and senior doctors may join industrial action, threatening NHS waiting times and the government’s ten-year plan.