Sky News has just announced:

Resident doctors in England to strike for six days after Easter bank holiday – The planned walk-out is due to start from 7 April at 7am, just after the Easter bank holiday in England, until 6.59am on 13 April.

The British Medical Association said in a post on X on Wednesday: “Resident doctors have been left with no choice but to strike.

“Weeks of negotiations with the Government have failed to deliver enough progress on pay, with the goalposts being moved at the last minute.

“We have called six days of industrial action to make the Government listen, stop the game playing, and come back with an offer that delivers fairly on both jobs and pay.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/resident-doctors-in-england-to-strike-for-six-days-after-easter-bank-holiday/ar-AA1ZoG41?ocid=BingNewsSerp

There have now been around 66 days of industrial action by junior/resident doctors in England, in the 4 years since March 2023, with an estimated 1.6 to 1.8 million appointments lost.

While no confirmed link between missed appointments and additional deaths has been proven FullFact did find 53 000 more deaths in England in 2023, than expected.

https://fullfact.org/health/telegraph-junior-doctors-strikes-excess-deaths/

There have been no (none) resident doctor strikes in Scotland thanks to a long-running non-confrontational negotiating style by SNP ministers, praised by the BMA in England, with up to 200 000 appointments saved and an unknown number but potentially hundreds of lives saved.