NHS consultants are prepared for a “war of attrition” with the Government stretching into the winter if pay talks stall, a union official has warned, as senior doctors began a 48-hour walkout over pay on Thursday.
Dr Kevin O’Kane, the London regional council chair at the British Medical Association (BMA), told the Standard that doctors were “in it for the long haul” as they began a second round of strike action in hospitals across the country at 7am.
