Junior Doctors To Strike Permanently?

Junior doctors threaten permanent strike and mass resignation over Jeremy Hunt’s imposed contract.

16:52 25 April 2016

Junior doctors could launch an indefinite strike action over Jeremy Hunt’s imposed contract. The proposal would mark a dramatic escalation of the British Medical Association dispute with the Government over the new doctor contract.

 

The indefinite walkout was one of the several options listed by Dr Johann Malawana, BMA’s junior doctor chair, in an email to colleagues seen by the Health Service Journal where he wrote: “The main question I want you to think about is what happens after the next action…Therefore I have listed below the possible actions and want to discuss if there are further actions we consider and what we put to the JDC meeting in May.”

 

However, he clarified that no decisions have been made.

 

“No decision has yet been made about future action but junior doctors will, of course, have to consider what options are open to them if the government refuses to re-enter talks.”

 

“The crucial message however is this; it is not too late to end this dispute and call off next week’s action entirely.  For the sake of patients as well as doctors, the government must listen to concerns from all sides calling on it to lift imposition, sit down with junior doctors and end this dispute through talks.”