Is Wes Streeting planning to offer resident doctors a bigger pay rise than other NHS staff?

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Claudia Tanner

There are claims that the health secretary will offer resident doctors a larger pay rise than other NHS staff – but the Department for Health and Social Care has strongly denied newspaper reports.

The Guardian has reported that sources with knowledge of talks Wes Streeting and the respresentatives of the BMA’s resident doctors committee held recently say he is considering at least doubling the NHS-wide 2.5% offer for resident doctors only which the government insisted last October was the most it could afford.