Junior doctors agree new contract to end four-year dispute

Under deal, 39,000 will get an 8.2% pay rise over four years along with other benefits. NHS junior doctors have accepted a new contract which gives them an 8.2% pay rise over four years in return for finally ending a four year-long dispute with ministers that triggered the first walkouts they had ever staged. More than four in five (82%) of the junior doctor members of the British Medical Association who voted in a referendum on the new terms and conditions agreed to accept them. About 39,000 ju