British Medical Association (BMA)

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4 June 2025

Telegraph overstates resident doctors’ pay demands

The union representing resident doctors is not asking for an extra 29% on top of this year’s 5.4% pay rise, as the paper reported. The demand is for a 29% rise on last year’s pay.

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An organiser arranges BMA-branded placards calling for better pay outside a hospital in central London in 2023.

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