Junior doctors in England are to go on strike for three days next month in a dispute over pay.
The British Medical Association (BMA) said the doctors had "no option" and would strike from March 13, having voted in favour of industrial action earlier this month. The BMA said junior doctors had called on Health Secretary Steve Barclay twice in the past week to meet with them urgently, but added that no date had been set.
A meeting with Department of Health civil servants earlier this week yielded nothing in terms of meaningful progress, said the BMA. The co-chairs of the BMA junior doctors' committee, Dr Rob Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, said patients and public alike need to know the blame for the strike action "lies squarely at the Government's door".
