All junior doctors will get 20% pay rise over 2 years in bid to end NHS strike chaos
JUNIOR doctors will be offered a whopping 20 per cent pay rise over the next two years in an astonishing bid to end NHS strikes.
Rachel Reeves will confirm the latest pay proposal from ministers this afternoon, alongside announcing salary hikes for troops, dentists and teachers.
Under a fresh deal struck between Health Secretary Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association, junior doctors would receive a backdated increase of 4.05 per cent for 2023-24, alongside an existing rise of between 8.8 per cent and 10.3 per cent.
They would then be able to cash in a further hike of 6 per cent for 2024-25, along with a consolidated £1,000 payment.
The total package would cost taxpayers around £1 billion.
It will be put to a ballot of BMA members, with an expectation but no cast-iron guarantee of passing.
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Union barons have been demanding rises worth 35 per cent.
NHS industrial action since December 2022 has led to 1.5 million operations, procedures and appointments being postponed.
Strikes have cost the health service an eye-watering £3bn.
Meanwhile, nurses are expected to see pay packs rise by an inflation-busting 5.5 per cent.
And senior doctors and dentists will get a 6 per cent uplift.
It comes as the Chancellor will today warn of “difficult choices” — as she prepares the nation for sweeping tax raids.
Ms Reeves will vow to “fix the foundations of our economy” and accuse ex-PM Rishi Sunak of “covering up” the dire state of public finances.
She will reveal the findings of a probe into Treasury coffers expected to show a £20billion black hole in the national purse.
And after naming a date for an Autumn Budget, Ms Reeves will pledge a fresh crackdown on public sector waste.
Mandarins are understood to be eyeing up a hike on inheritance and capital gains taxes this autumn to boost coffers.
PM Sir Keir Starmer has vowed VAT, income tax and national insurance will not go up in this parliament.