In pictures: Junior doctors protest

The Government is proposing that Saturday and evening working will no longer count as ‘unsociable hours’ for junior doctors, meaning that trainees who do lots of out-of-hours work will see their salaries cut

But the BMA has rejected the Government’s proposals and organised a march of 20,000 doctors and others to Parliament on Saturday

For GP trainees, the proposals will remove the current guarantee of pay parity with hospital doctors, known as the GP registrar supplement

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has given assurances that GP trainees will not be ‘disadvantaged compared with the current system’ and a ‘cast-iron guarantee’ that the overall bill for junior doctors’ pay will not decrease

But GP trainee leaders have said that, despite Mr Hunt’s assurances, there are no long-term assurances that GP training pay will remain as it is

GP trainees, alongside their hospital colleagues, are being balloted from the 5 November whether they would be prepared to take industrial action

Junior doctors protesting on Saturday

‘We cannot have a situation where a body decides there is no longer a GP recruitment crisis, or there is no longer a crisis in Birmingham, or Yorkshire, and tells GP trainees their salary will change,' says GPC trainees subcommittee chair Dr Donna Tooth

Kent GP Dr Stephanie DiGiorgio