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

Resident doctors’ strike to go ahead after Wes Streeting’s last-ditch offer is rejected

A close-up photo of Wes Streeting wearing a navy suit jacket with a poppy, a blue shirt and a burgundy tie
Wes Streeting offered 2,000 extra places for specialist training and for the NHS to pay exam and professional body membership fees for resident doctors. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Wes Streeting has failed in an attempt to end the long-running resident doctors’ dispute with a new offer to them, which means their five-day strike next week is expected to go ahead.

The health secretary tabled a new offer to resident doctors – formerly junior doctors – in England on Wednesday in a move intended to avoid the strike, their 13th.

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