Resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – in England are to strike for six days in the ongoing row over pay and jobs, the British Medical Association announced.
The planned walk-out is due to start from April 7, just after the Easter Bank Holiday in England.
The British Medical Council said in a post on X on Wednesday: “Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike.
“Weeks of negotiations with the Government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute.
“We have called six days of industrial action to make the Government listen, stop the game playing, and come back with an offer that delivers fairly on both jobs and pay.”
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