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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell and Andrew Gregory

Junior doctors in England to stage more strikes over pay

Junior doctors hold placards on a picket line
Junior doctors holding placards on a picket line earlier this year. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

The NHS will struggle to care properly for patients when junior doctors in England stage the longest strike in the service’s history this winter, hospital bosses have said after the collapse of pay talks.

The warning came after the British Medical Association (BMA) announced tens of thousands of junior doctors would walk out for three days later this month and another six days in January, at a time when the NHS comes under its most intense strain.

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