BMA calls for pay uplift as junior doctors lose right to free accommodation
16 November 2007
The Health Secretary has admitted to being 'unaware' that first year junior doctors lost their entitlement to free accommodation following amendments to the Medical Act.
The Department of Health has always argued against an increase in junior doctors’ pay on the basis that they received subsidised accommodation.
This excuse can no longer be used, and in the Times on Friday November 16 November, 2007, the BMA calls for an uplift to basic salary.
Read the letter in the Times