Junior doctors in England to strike again after pay talks break down

More than 100,000 patients in England face having their NHS care cancelled this month after junior doctors announced a fresh wave of strike action.

Health leaders expressed alarm, warning the five-day walkout would jeopardise all efforts to tackle the record waiting list and push other services to “breaking point”.

The development will pile renewed pressure on Rishi Sunak, who has been accused of holding up a deal over pay, to urgently resolve the row.

“I think the public will be frustrated, bordering on angry, now with the prime minister for letting this drag on for so long,” the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said on Friday after talks between the junior doctors’ union and the government broke down again.

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