Junior doctors to strike for five days in September over new contract

JUNIOR doctors are to stage five days of strikes with 'full withdrawal of labour' over the controversial new contract for training medics, doctors' leaders have announced.
Junior doctors are proposing to go on strike for a week every month for the rest of the year as the row over a new contract being imposed on them by the Government intensifies. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA WireJunior doctors are proposing to go on strike for a week every month for the rest of the year as the row over a new contract being imposed on them by the Government intensifies. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Junior doctors are proposing to go on strike for a week every month for the rest of the year as the row over a new contract being imposed on them by the Government intensifies. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

The strikes will take place between the hours of 8am and 5pm for five days between Monday September 12 and Friday September 16, the British Medical Association (BMA) said.

This action will be followed by “further dates” which are yet to be confirmed, a BMA spokeswoman said.