Senior doctors’ strike signals fight over NHS pay is just beginning

While some unions have accepted government offers, ministers are still failing to address real-terms erosion in payJust when NHS strikes in England seemed to be ending, another group of staff has announced its own stoppages – and, as ever, pay is the issue.In early May, eight of the 12 unions that represent NHS personnel in England, apart from doctors and dentists, accepted the government’s pay offer, albeit after months of industrial action. Then on Tuesday the Royal College of Nurs