Time to wake up to the pay cuts The slow creep of the pay cuts made them a lot easier to swallow. With inflation hitting 11% and junior doctors’ pay increasing by just 2%, this year alone junior doctors’ real terms pay is down by 9%.4 Junior doctors are feeling the impact of these cuts in every aspect of our lives. The government’s failure to match doctors’ salaries with the rising cost of living is not because they’ve instead prioritised pay for other NHS workers. Doctors are one of the most powerful groups of workers in the NHS: if doctors win full pay restoration, we lay the path for others to follow. At a doctors pay restoration protest last month, doctors heard speeches from a nurse, occupational therapist, and tube driver.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2022 17:29 UTC