This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The union of junior doctors, British Medical Association, is conducting a march today in London in protest at the government’s planned changes to their contracts in England that will lead to a drop in junior doctors’ salaries.
Whereas on the other hand, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has disregarded BMA’s complaints and accused it of misleading doctors. The minister says that the proposals is reducing their maximum weekly working hours but BMA has said that the rally in Westminster was a “wake-up call for ministers.” In addition to the rally in London, thousands of junior doctors are also rallying in Belfast and Nottingham. Talking in a radio show, Mr Hunt stated that the proposals would benefit doctors by reducing their maximum weekly working hours. He highlighted that the financial penalties are being removed because “that force hospitals to roster less at weekends.” He stressed that “this is a good deal for doctors. We are reducing the maximum hours a doctor can be asked to work from 91 to 72 hours [a week]. We’re stopping doctors being asked to work for five nights in a row.”
Meanwhile, according to one of the junior doctors at the central London protest, Animesh Singh, “I have looked at the contract proposal with an accountant friend and looked at the kind of rotas I work.” He alleged that “for me as an 11-year junior doctor I would see a 15% cut in my pay and that’s someone who’s looking after patients who come into casualty every day of my working life.”
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