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

Senior medics in England say more resident doctor strikes would be futile

Striking resident doctors outside St Thomas’s hospital in London last summer
Striking resident doctors outside St Thomas’s hospital in London last summer. BMA members took industrial action over pay in 2023 and 2024. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images

Six senior figures in England’s medical profession have criticised potential strikes by resident doctors as “a futile gesture” that will harm patients and help those who oppose the NHS.

The move is the first public evidence of the significant unease many senior doctors feel about the possibility of their junior colleagues staging a new campaign of industrial action in England.

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