Skip to main content
The Morning Star Shop
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.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
Health Secretary Wes Streeting takes part in the Call the Cabinet phone-in on LBC, hosted by Shelagh Fogarty, at the Global Studios, London, July 10, 2025
Workers' Rights / 13 July 2025
13 July 2025
A doctor checking a patient's blood pressure at the Temple F
Britain / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
A doctor holding a stethoscope
Britain / 21 November 2024
21 November 2024