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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Junior doctors ‘may keep striking for another year’ says BMA insider

Striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham in March.
Striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham in March. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

Junior doctors may keep striking for another year in their bitter pay dispute with the government, despite NHS leaders’ growing alarm about how the industrial action is disrupting patient care.

Trainee medics in England could even hold a week-long stoppage to escalate their campaign of industrial action to secure a 35% pay rise from the health secretary, Steve Barclay.

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