Fact check: Pay rise for junior doctors includes 8.8% hike from last year
A shadow minister claimed the Government has given junior doctors a 22% pay rise on top of an 8.8% increase announced last year.
Evaluation
The Government’s agreement with the British Medical Association (BMA) will see an average pay increase of 22.3% if it is accepted by members. This is over two years and includes the 8.8% from last year.
The facts
In the fiscal year ending March 2024 junior doctors in England were given an 8.8% pay rise.
The new offer from the Government gives them an additional 4.05% on top of that.
Added to this, the deal gives junior doctors 8.0% for the current fiscal year – which ends in March 2025.
To calculate the total increase, these percentage increases are multiplied together to give an overall increase of around 22.26%.
The shadow cabinet minister deleted the post in which he had made the claim and acknowledged that the “tweet was wrong” in an email to the PA news agency.