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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell and Kiran Stacey

NHS trusts accused of exaggerating staff shortages to weaken impact of strike

Junior doctors hold placards as they stand on a picket line
Thousands of junior doctors in England have been on strike since Wednesday in a six-day action. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Hospitals are exaggerating how short-staffed they are to try to get junior doctors to break their strike and return to work, according to the British Medical Association.

The doctors’ union has accused NHS trusts of trying to “manipulate” the agreed process for how hospitals can ask striking medics to work in order to protect patients’ safety.

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