Settling the resident doctors dispute will cost £200 million this year but the Department of Health and Social Care was tonight unable to say how it would be funded.
Health Secretary James Murray championed the deal as ‘good for taxpayers’ and stressed the bill is ‘less than the cost of one more week’s worth of strikes’.
But his predecessor, Wes Streeting, has previously warned that caving in to the British Medical Association could end up costing billions as the likes of nurses, porters and ambulance crews are then likely to demand more.
On Monday, resident doctors accepted a pay offer that brings to
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