The Health Secretary has announced that he will impose the new contract on NHS junior doctors without finding a compromise with the British Medical Association (BMA).
Junior doctors have begun a second 24-hour strike over safe working practices and changes to their pay structure after talks between the Department of Health and the British Medical Association (BMA) broke down.
The British Medical Association has called off the 48-hour junior doctors’ strike that had been scheduled to begin next Tuesday.
The health secretary continues to misrepresent today’s strike by 10,000 junior doctors as a “completely unnecessary dispute” over pay, ignoring the junior doctors’ concerns about patient safety.
Nearly two thirds of the English public support junior doctors’ strike action today, a poll suggests.