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Resident doctors in Scotland will be balloted on industrial action next month in an ongoing dispute over pay, a union has announced.

The ballot comes after BMA Scotland accused the Scottish Government of reneging on a deal made in 2023 to make “credible progress” towards restoring pay to 2008 levels in each of the following three years.

The union said the Government’s pay offer for resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – for the next year would see them receive a real-terms pay cut, “throwing away” progress made in the past two years.

The ballot is set to o

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