Scottish junior doctors vote in favour of 72-hour strike

Junior doctors successful Scotland person voted overwhelmingly successful favour of a three-day onslaught amid a wage quality with the Scottish government.

In a ballot of BMA Scotland members 97% voted for 72-hour walkout implicit calls for a 23.5% summation supra inflation.

It follows a strikes by inferior doctors successful England, who walked retired for 3 days successful March and 4 days successful April.

The onslaught is acceptable to beryllium the archetypal nationalist onslaught implicit wage by inferior doctors successful Scotland.

The Scottish authorities antecedently said the wage demands were "simply unaffordable" unless cuts were made to the NHS and different nationalist services.

The ballot, which was unfastened for much than 5 weeks, closed astatine noon.

More than 71% of the eligible 5,000 inferior doctors voted, with 97% successful favour of concern action. A onslaught would interaction planned operations, clinics and GP appointments.

Junior doctors - fully-qualified medics who are not specialty unit doctors, consultants oregon GPs - marque up 44% of the doctors successful the NHS successful Scotland.

The national said erstwhile wage awards for inferior doctors successful Scotland had delivered real-terms wage cuts of 23.5% since 2008.

It added that, with rises successful inflation, this year's 4.5% uplift was "again being outstripped and the presumption connected wage erosion volition beryllium worse by the extremity of the year".

The BMA has asked for a 23.5% summation connected apical of inflation, arguing that it is needed to marque up for 15 years of "pay erosion".

Union said it would statesman preparations for a 72-hour walkout if the Scottish authorities did not enactment guardant a credible offer. Dates for the onslaught person not been confirmed.