The BMA said in July this year, the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Pay Review Body (DDRB) recommended an uplift of 6% for all doctors, and this had already been applied in the rest of the UK.
Its Northern Ireland council chair Dr Alan Stout said the minister had told the BMA he was not in a position to make the full pay award.
“On behalf of all doctors in Northern Ireland, I made it clear this was totally unacceptable,” Dr Stout said.
“I will now meet with the chairs of all the BMA branch of committees in Northern Ireland to seek their views on how to proceed.
“The scale of anger and outrage I have been hearing over the course of the last week is unprecedented. Doctors here are totally disillusioned with the Department of Health and its attitude towards doctors’ pay.”
