As reported by the BMA, proposed industrial action would take place in March
Junior doctors in England are to walk out for 72 hours in March if a BMA ballot for industrial action taking place next week is successful.
The ‘full walk out’ will mean junior doctors in England will not provide emergency care during the strike if a majority of union members vote in favour with at least a 50% turnout.
The ballot opens on 9 January, and the BMA is still urging the health secretary to meet with doctors and negotiate a solution to avoid the need for industrial action.
But the organisation says incumbent Steve Barclay is ‘the first health secretary for over 50 years to continue to ignore all invitations from the BMA to meet with doctors, making attempts to find a negotiated settlement virtually impossible’.
Successive governments have overseen 15 years of real-terms pay cuts for junior doctors in England, which amounts to a 26.1% decline in pay since 2008/09, according to BMA calculations.
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