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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Gregory Health editor

NHS England chiefs accused of undermining doctors’ strike action

Striking Junior doctors on the picket line at Homerton Hospital in London.
Striking Junior doctors on the picket line at Homerton Hospital in London. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

The British Medical Association has accused NHS chiefs of bowing to political pressure in a patient safety row over striking junior doctors being called back to work.

The doctors’ union criticised NHS England, saying the process by which medics may be called back to the frontline in “extreme circumstances” risked total collapse because of a failure by health bosses to follow it.

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