NHS set for months of strike chaos after doctors vote to walk out over 29% pay rise demand
The NHS is facing months of disruption after doctors in England voted in favour of strike action which could see walkouts last until January next year.
The British Medical Association announced that resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, had backed strike action as part of demands to secure a 29%
The dates of the strikes have not yet been confirmed but the NHS will huge disruption with hundreds of thousands of appointments at risk of being cancelled if the action goes ahead.
The move would threaten to undermine Sir Keir Starmer’s key ambition to cut waiting lists and could leave the government’s new ten-year plan for the NHS, unveiled last week, in tatters.
The BMA said there is “still time to avert strike action” as it urged Health Secretary Wes Streeting to “come forward as soon as possible with a credible path to pay restoration”.
Source: The Independent, 8 July 2025