{"id":86359,"date":"2026-06-29T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/ni-health-resident-doctors-begin-strike-action-over-pay\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:03:00","slug":"ni-health-resident-doctors-begin-strike-action-over-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=86359","title":{"rendered":"NI health: Resident doctors begin strike action over pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Steven Montgomery, BMA&#8217;s Northern Ireland resident doctors committee chair, said the &#8220;better pay and better working conditions on offer in other countries means we are losing doctors when we really need to do all we can to keep doctors working here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the &#8220;growing patient numbers without the necessary number of doctors needed to meet this demand and pressure&#8221; was a &#8220;perfect storm for our health service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We did not think we would have to take strike action again so soon after the last walk-outs, but we were left with no choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The onus is now firmly on government to engage urgently and meaningfully and present a credible way forward to avert strike action,&#8221; Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farren added: &#8220;Doctors in Northern Ireland are lowest paid in these islands and we have been trying to work with the minister and the department of health to rectify that, to get what he terms &#8216;pay parity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, despite all of that, we continue to not have pay parity and, as a result, we have been forced after years of negotiations to take unprecedented strike action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpv31erm387o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Steven Montgomery, BMA&#8217;s Northern Ireland resident doctors committee chair, said the &#8220;better pay and better&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1405,652,231,1874,4050,189],"class_list":["post-86359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-action","tag-doctors","tag-health","tag-pay","tag-resident","tag-strike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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