Members of the BMA on strike outside parliament last year.Doctors have warned they are prepared to strike again after accusing the government of making a “woefully inadequate” pay offer.The British Medical Association (BMA), which represents junior doctors, hit out after ministers said their salaries will increase by 4% this year.Teachers’ leaders also reacted angrily after schools were told they would have to find savings to help fund their own 4% pay award.Junior doctors staged a series of walkouts over pay under the last Tory government, but called them off after Labour awarded them pay rises following last year’s general election.Professor Philip Banfield, chair of the BMA council, warned health secretary Wes Streeting that his members were willing to strike again unless he came up with more money.He said: “The health secretary can avert strike action by negotiating with us and agreeing a route to full pay restoration.“As it stands, resident doctors are vindicated for their decision to announce a ballot for industrial action opening later this month, because Mr Streeting is not, so far, committing to meaningfully res
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