{"id":876,"date":"2021-07-23T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/doctors-call-for-strike-action-over-derisory-pay-offer-as-covid-hospitalisations-rise\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T08:26:12","slug":"doctors-call-for-strike-action-over-derisory-pay-offer-as-covid-hospitalisations-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/doctors-call-for-strike-action-over-derisory-pay-offer-as-covid-hospitalisations-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in City AM: Doctors call for strike action over &#8216;derisory&#8217; pay offer as Covid hospitalisations rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/engin-akyurt-cn19RqKumfw-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5268\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of doctors have condemned the government\u2019s \u201cshambolic and derisory\u201d 3 per cent pay rise offer to NHS staff in England, threatening industrial action as Covid hospitalisations soar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lobbying organisation The Doctors\u2019 Assocation (DAUK) said the 3 per cent offered \u201cdoes not come close to what staff deserve\u201d and was an \u201cinsult\u201d from the government when the NHS has been immensely challenged by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK also said the pay offer represents a pay cut in real terms, as inflation this year is estimated at 3.7 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pay rise covers nurses, paramedics, consultants, dentists and salaried GPs. But crucially, it does not cover England\u2019s 61,000 junior doctors \u2013 who make up more than 50 per cent of doctors in the NHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Junior doctors are three quarters of the way through a separate four-year deal that gives them 2 per cent pay rises each year, but their exclusion from the 3 per cent rise was \u201ccallous in view of the large number of doctors in training who have worked tirelessly through the pandemic,\u201d the DAUK said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many have been called away from their area of expertise and had to cover rota gaps due to continuous under-staffing \u2013 especially during the ongoing \u201cpingdemic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One junior doctor told&nbsp;<em>City A.M<\/em>&nbsp;that the pay rise \u201cforgot everyone who\u2019s had their training disrupted during the pandemic or been called up early from medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But asked if the pay row would risk a repeat of the junior doctor strikes in 2015 and 2016, they said: \u201cIt\u2019s not like the last strike, as there\u2019s an ongoing pandemic now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/doctors-call-for-strike-action-over-derisory-pay-offer-as-covid-hospitalisations-rise\/?fbclid=IwAR0zzGurY-TIlWRc98dJvZCyo5pN8MJqv8Zsw7AJ92RMAa-s38MvnHAKnUE\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of doctors have condemned the government\u2019s \u201cshambolic and derisory\u201d 3 per cent pay rise offer to NHS staff in England, threatening industrial action as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,58],"tags":[162,44,38,435,524,301,490,518],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhs","tag-boris-johnson","tag-covid-19","tag-dauk","tag-dauk-news","tag-dauk_gp","tag-dauks-gp-committee","tag-doctors-pay","tag-fairer-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}