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NHS: Industrial Disputes

Commons · Question 91979 · Tabled 18 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent industrial action in the NHS.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 26 Nov 2025

In May, we accepted the independent pay review bodies’ headline pay recommendations, giving doctors and Agenda for Change staff, including nurses, an above inflation pay rise for the second year in a row.As well as awarding resident doctors in England a p...