Junior doctors in England accepted a pay deal on Monday made by the government, a breakthrough that follows a series of strikes, including the longest walkout in the history of the National Health Service (NHS) earlier this year.

Junior doctors in England voted to accept a pay rise of 22.3% on average in a deal that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government said would bring the strikes which have hampered the country’s National Health Service to an end.

Junior doctors had been in dispute over what they said was a decade of real terms pay cuts since October 2022, during which time they have taken 44 days of strike action.

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