Senior doctors in England reach pay deal with government
by Denis Campbell Health policy editor from on (#6GPA6)
NHS leaders welcome breakthrough as vital step' towards halting walkouts by various staff groups
Doctors' leaders have struck a deal with ministers that could end the strikes by hospital consultants that have badly disrupted NHS care for months.
Grassroots members of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) in England still have to approve the government's offer. But if medics accept it in referendums then both unions will call off the industrial action that has led to hundreds of thousands of operations and outpatient appointments being cancelled.
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