A majority (53%) BMA members voted in favour in of the new deal that includes an average pay rise of 4.9% this year, with higher pay rises on average for the lowest paid first year and second year doctors - at 6.2% and 7.1% respectively.

BMA resident doctors committe chair Jack Fletcher said: ‘Resident doctors have spoken. They have decided that the current offer is sufficient to continue on the road to pay restoration and sufficient to address the absurd lack of jobs in the NHS. The strikes will now end.'

The acceptance of the deal brings an end to the dispute in England, which has seen 15 rounds of industrial action take place since 2023.

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Health and social care secretary James Murray said: ‘This is very good news for resident doctors, patients and the NHS as a whole, allowing us to draw a line under the disruption of previous months and focus on getting on with the job of rebuilding our health service.'

Dean Royles, interim chief executive of NHS Employers, said: ‘After such a long running dispute that has caused so much upset and disruption to patient care, all parties will be pleased that a resolution now seems to have been found and there will be no further strike action.'

Sarah Woolnough, chief executive at The King's Fund, said: ‘This agreement creates space to move beyond short-term dispute management towards long-term workforce reform. Given the current political instability, it is important that the Government proceeds with delivering the 10-Year Workforce Plan to provide a roadmap to tackle the root causes of dissatisfaction and put the NHS on a more sustainable footing.'

Sir Ciarán Devane, chief executive of The NHS Alliance, said: ‘It has now been almost a year since the Government published its Ten-Year Health Plan to put the NHS on a more sustainable, long-term footing. We must now focus on moving forward and delivering the reforms needed.'