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Medics urge ministers to enter talks or risk more NHS walkouts this winter
Junior doctors and medical consultant members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, on the first day of a three-day joint walkout amid their dispute with the government over pay, October 2, 2023

MEDICS have urged ministers to come to the negotiating table by using conciliation service Acas or face further waves of industrial action.

The warning came as junior doctors and medical consultants launched a 72-hour walk out – their longest period of joint strike action to date. 

BMA consultants committee chairman Dr Vishal Sharma said that he has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, giving him four weeks to enter formal talks.

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