Senior doctors say their salaries aren't keeping up, as they prepare for strike action next week

They will down tools for 48 hours after negotiations between them and the Government broke down.

The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists says pay has been below inflation since the pandemic.

Executive Director Sarah Dalton says there's not a good allocation of resources.

She says the Government is incentivising locum work, which they spent 200 million dollars on last year.