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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Junior doctors bring dispute to end by voting to accept Streeting’s pay offer

A crowd of junior doctors in orange bucket hats holding signs saying: 'Pay restoration for doctors.'
Junior doctors rallying outside Downing Street in June. Work was stopped on 44 days during the strike. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/REX/Shutterstock

Junior doctors in England have voted to accept the government’s pay offer, bringing to an end one of the longest and bitterest disputes in recent NHS history.

Just under two-thirds (66%) of the 45,830 junior doctors who voted backed the deal, which will see them receiving an average salary increase of 22.3% over two years.

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