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Junior doctors secure a 22% pay increase, but union warns of further strikes if pay erodes
Junior doctors, joined by a Just Eat delivery courier (right), on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, during their continuing dispute over pay, June 27, 2024

FURTHER junior doctors’ strikes could be on the cards if Health Secretary Wes Streeting “overpromises and underdelivers” next year, a leading medic indicated today.

Junior doctors in England have voted to accept a pay deal after staging 44 days of strikes since October 2022.

The doctors had taken industrial action after suffering more than a decade of real-terms pay cuts.

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