Junior doctors have refused to call off a strike after a last ditch intervention by the Government. They are due to walk out for three days from Monday as part of a bitter row over pay.
Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, invited bosses from trade union the British Medical Association for pay talks, on the basis that the industrial action would be cancelled. But in a letter to Mr Barclay published today, the co-chairs of the BMA’s junior doctors committee, Dr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, rejected the offer and said the strike action would go ahead as planned.
"We remain open to entering talks with Government anytime and anywhere to bring this dispute to a swift resolution and restore the pay that junior doctors have lost," they wrote. "We would encourage you to reconsider the preconditions that are currently preventing talks from taking place.
