Adam Crellin

The clocks change this weekend! If you are working a long day in England you still need 11 hours rest in between shifts. The clocks go forward and may reduce this to <11hrs. If rotas haven’t been adjusted for the clock change - you should exception report. It's about safety.

Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike. Weeks of negotiations with the Government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute. We have called six days of industrial action to make the Government listen, stop the game playing, and come back with an offer that delivers fairly on both jobs and pay.

We are aware of a number of doctors who have had their return travel to the UK disrupted by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Our view is any affected doctor should receive paid special leave if they are delayed in returning to work due to the conflict. Members who have been affected or are being denied paid special leave by their employer should get in touch with us - bma.org.uk/about-us/conta…

There’s a lot of misinformation about the current resident doctors’ strikes, so we thought we would set the record straight. Here are the facts 👇

Strikes will GO AHEAD from 17-22 December, after resident doctors in England voted overwhelmingly to reject the latest offer from @wesstreeting.

Hello @BMAResidents We’ve now shared the offer from Wes Streeting. On the headline, it sounds big: “4,000 jobs.” But you need to read the detail, not the headline. First: it’s only 1,000 more jobs this year. We currently have around 10,000 training posts and more than 30,000 applicants. One extra year of 1,000 posts does not fix the crisis. It barely touches it. Second: none of these posts are new. There is no increase in the overall number of jobs for resident doctors. Every one of these “new training posts” is just a locally employed doctor post being converted into a training number. So if you don’t get into training, there will now be fewer jobs available outside training. That is not expansion; that is moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. Third: UK graduate prioritisation is being attached to this offer. This policy costs the government nothing, and they were already planning to do it. It is being packaged into the offer to make it look bigger than it is. Fourth: there are no long-term fixes. These 4,000 posts are temporary, one-off, and will not permanently increase training numbers. We simply hit the same bottleneck again a year later, but worse, because medical school output is increasing and there is no plan for higher specialty posts. The government has not even confirmed which specialties these posts will be in, where they will be, or whether any higher training posts will follow afterwards. Fifth: the offer is designed to split us. It takes a crisis affecting everyone and turns it into a race. Some might feel they have been given something and walk away. That is exactly what the government wants: doctors divided. They are clearly under pressure over December strikes. A month ago, Streeting was talking about consulting on prioritisation. Now he is rushing emergency legislation. That is not confidence. That is panic. And panic means we can get more, if we stay united. And remember what is missing entirely: *no multi-year pay deal *no pay uplift for 2025/26 or 2026/27 *no employment guarantee for doctors stuck in the bottleneck *no extra pay for hours over 40 or antisocial hours *no nodal reform to stop starting salaries falling behind PAs *no funding for GMC fees or essential costs *no meaningful change to premia or safety-critical allowances This offer gives us: *no real expansion *no job security *no sustainable plan *and no headline pay talk at all About the poll: We will run an indicative poll online, which will open at 7am on Friday 12 December and close at 7am on Monday 15 December. We will ask you what you think of this offer and whether it should form the basis for next steps. Remember: *The Government presented this offer on Sunday with a deadline of Tuesday to respond. *Strike action has compelled the Government to make a new offer. *Voting in this indicative poll will not settle either dispute. *A YES vote in this poll will not prevent us taking strike action after December. *This poll result does not affect the status of the re-ballot; vote YES in the re-ballot regardless. We want to hear your thoughts and are presenting this offer factually. I will be voting NO. I personally think it isn’t worth the paper it is written on, and I suggest you do the same. Vote NO. Do not let government buy off our unity with repurposed posts and short-lived promises. We are worth more than this. In solidarity, Nick

Calling ALL resident doctors in England – our re-ballot on jobs and pay is officially open📢 Let’s keep the pressure up on the Government! Look out for your orange envelope in the post and return your YES vote by 26 January. bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/…

The gov has failed to come to the table again, despite a letter asking them to negotiate. Therefore strikes have been announced today. Jobs and pay, we need movement on both, the current situation is untenable.

@ltg1810 @DogEverybody @TheTVGrump @PolitlcsUK Apologies. Only saw your post as a reply to the main tweet about the December 2025 strikes 😊

@DrCrellin @DogEverybody @TheTVGrump @PolitlcsUK Have a read of my post and you’ll see was I referring to the 2023/34 strikes

🚨 BREAKING: Resident doctors in England will strike between the 17 December and 22 December

@ltg1810 @DogEverybody @TheTVGrump @PolitlcsUK bma.org.uk/bma-media-cent… Have a read and you’ll see that it’s not just about pay, but also about jobs.

@DogEverybody @TheTVGrump @PolitlcsUK The BMA were not negotiating on anything other on pay

“Patients need doctors and doctors need jobs” Today, we've written to @wesstreeting to ask the Government to resume talks – and work with us to agree a viable deal on pay and jobs. Without movement on both, we’ll be left with no choice but to return to the picket lines.

We’re 2,147 anaesthetic doctors short, and the gap is growing. Surgeries are cancelled every day because of it. There’s capacity to train more, yet the government threatens to cut doctor jobs. Patients are being denied the care they deserve.

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.@JeremyVineOn5 should to issue a retraction of demonstrably false information @thecarolemalone spouted here FT 37.5hrs a week is for AfC staff, not doctors FT for doctors is 40hrs, and they’re rostered to work up to 48 a week and receive no increased rate for working above 40

Following yesterday’s strike ballot result, we met with @wesstreeting It’s clear: the Government is refusing to negotiate on pay. We are now preparing for a full 5 day walk-out, beginning on Friday 25 July. Our door will always be open to constructive talks. #PayRestoration

The results are in: we have a clear mandate to strike. More than 90% of you who voted in our ballot, voted YES. You’ve made it clear: enough is enough. Our fight for full #PayRestoration for resident doctors in England continues.

As a working class kid who became a doctor, my biggest concern is that I can't get a training number or job

0.9% pay offer imposed. Separately, doctors in our region are facing a cut to their travel remuneration of £1m this August. Doctors will be £300/mo worse off. This offer is worth less than £100/mo. Vote YES in the ballot next week.

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

🚨 BREAKING: Resident doctors in England have re-entered a pay dispute with the Government. Why? Because progress is being stonewalled by the continued delay in the publication of the DDRB's pay recommendations. Trust must be rebuilt. Publish the DDRB now bma.org.uk/residentspay