Doctors in England will walk out for five days in the run-up to Christmas, escalating their dispute with Wes Streeting over pay and jobs and putting at fresh risk the health secretary’s pledge to cut NHS waiting times.
The British Medical Association said on Monday that resident doctors — formerly known as junior doctors — would go on strike from 7am on December 17.
Streeting hit out at the union’s “cynical attempt to wreck Christmas”, saying the stoppage would cause “untold anxiety” at the “busiest time of the year” for the NHS.
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