Junior doctors in Wales have criticised the Welsh Government over its pledge to restore NHS pay to 2008 levels, saying it they fear it is "already looking for reasons not to make good on their commitment to the principle of full pay restoration".
At a press conference earlier this week, health minister Eluned Morgan said that the Welsh Government's ability to spend more money on NHS pay was "limited". She said the Conservative government at Westminster would be unlikely to provide the additional funding so ministers in Wales would be "having conversations obviously with our counterparts in Labour in Westminster in relation to this".
Ms Morgan's comments appear to suggest that hopes of pay restoration in Wales, which was part of a package of measures offered to unions to end NHS strikes in Wales, may rest on a future Labour administration at Westminster lead by Keir Starmer. This is despite the fact Mr Starmer has so far refused to commit to pay restoration in the NHS.
