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Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:11 AM Mar 2016

Junior doctors escalate industrial action to all-out strike next month

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/23/junior-doctors-to-escalate-industrial-action-to-all-out-strike-next-month

BMA says first full withdrawal of labour, including emergency cover, in NHS history, will take place on 26 and 27 April

Junior doctors escalate industrial action to all-out strike next month
Esther Addley
Wednesday 23 March 2016 10.40 EDT

The union that represents junior doctors has dramatically escalated its dispute with the government over new contracts by announcing a two-day, all-out strike at the end of April, in which even emergency cover will be withdrawn.

The British Medical Association said that a previously announced strike by junior doctors in England between 8am and 5pm on 26 and 27 April, during which they had originally planned to provide emergency care only, would now be a “full withdrawal of labour”. “This means that all junior doctors will not attend work, or provide emergency cover between those hours,” it said in a statement.

The decision means that, unlike the three previous strikes held since January, junior doctors will for the first time not staff A&E units, intensive care, emergency surgery or other areas of life or death care.

It is a high-risk move by the 45,000 medics below consultant level. Opinion polls have found that about two-thirds of the public have backed the strikes to date.
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