Nearly two thirds of the English public support junior doctors’ strike action today, a poll suggests.
The health secretary has been accused of gambling with people’s lives, after it was revealed that the government had made “no specific assessment into modeling patient safety” for the proposed changes to junior doctors’ contracts.
Junior doctors have called off the first of their 24 hour strikes, but hospitals across England still face major disruption after thousands of operations are cancelled.
Junior doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in support of strike action in protest of changes to their contracts the government intends to impose on them.
Jeremy Hunt has been accused of trying to con junior doctors with his last ditch promise of an 11% pay rise, which in reality amounts to a 26% pay cut for many.