NHS medical and dental staff across Scotland are to receive a 2.8% pay rise, Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman has announced.
She said the above-inflation pay rise, backdated to April 1 2020, will ensure senior medical staff in Scotland "continue to be the best paid in the UK".
BMA Scotland said the salary hike is a step "on the long road to restoring morale and improving doctors' working lives".
But Dr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the organisation, said there is a "long way to go to reverse the negative impact of over a decade of previous pay announcements".
The move was announced after Chancellor Rishi Sunak said public-sector workers south of the border who have been on the front line of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic will be given a pay rise.
Doctors, teachers and police officers in England are among the almost 900,000 workers who will benefit, with teachers and doctors receiving the largest increases at 3.1% and 2.8% respectively, according to the Treasury.
Ms Freeman paid tribute to the "hard work and dedication" of NHS staff.
She said: "The continued hard work and dedication of staff makes our NHS the treasured institution it is and ensures that the people of Scotland continue to receive world-class healthcare.
"This uplift demonstrates that we fully value all our medical and dental staff and the important contribution they make."
The Health Secretary added: "It's crucial that we continue to not only recruit and build our future NHS workforce but also retain expertise within NHS Scotland.
"This announcement means that our senior medical staff will continue to be the best paid in the UK.
"This will help to ensure that NHS Scotland remains an attractive employment option for medical and dental staff."
Dr Morrison said doctors' pay has fallen by up to 30% over the years, adding "almost all recent pay uplifts have fallen short of being acceptable".
This has "had a cumulative detrimental effect on recruitment, retention and morale", he added.
The BMA Scotland chairman said: "Over this time doctors' jobs have become more intense and demanding, with evidence of excessive workloads and spiralling demand, whilst covering for growing and often under-reported medical vacancies.
"Add to that the huge efforts of medical staff during many months of the Covid-19 pandemic and it's clear that reversing that decline is more necessary than ever.
"Today's announcement is therefore a further step in the right direction after marginal progress last year.
"It does to some extent acknowledge the effort of doctors who have led the response to Covid-19.
"But there's a long way to go to reverse the negative impact of over a decade of previous pay announcements."
