NHS consultants vote to strike for 2 days subsequent month

Senior hospital medical doctors have voted to strike for 2 days subsequent month, the British Medical Association has mentioned.

The consultants will stroll out on Thursday the twentieth and Friday the twenty first of July.

Union members have been requested to vote on “Christmas Day levels of care”, the medical union mentioned.

It mentioned Christmas-like cowl means the motion will likely be “safe and effective”.

The BMA admitted, nonetheless, that whereas emergency care will nonetheless be supplied, elective or non-emergency work will likely be cancelled.