Junior doctors ballot for strike action over pay cut & longer contract hours

‘Junior doctors have decided to hold a vote on industrial action against Heath Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s reviled new contract plan, which would require them to work longer hours for less pay.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has announced it will hold the strike ballot on November 5. If the motion passes, the doctors are likely to go on strike in December.

“This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, but the government’s refusal to work with us through genuine negotiations and their threat to impose new contracts that we believe are unsafe for patients and unfair for doctors, leaves us with few options,” said JDC chair Dr Johann Malawana.’

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