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

Wes Streeting and resident doctors urged to agree to mediation to end strikes

Wes Streeting BMA NHS Jack Fletcher
Doctors hold BMA branded placards outside the hospital
Doctors on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital in London in November. Thousands of doctors will strike from Wednesday for five days. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Exasperated NHS bosses have urged Wes Streeting and the British Medical Association to agree to independent mediation to end industrial action by resident doctors, who will begin their latest strike on Wednesday.

The health secretary and the doctors union have been told to embrace the idea in order to urgently break the deadlock in their increasingly bitter dispute that health service bosses say is making patients “collateral damage”.

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