JUNIOR doctors in England are set to strike for three days next month in their increasingly bitter pay dispute, it was announced yesterday.

The British Medical Association (BMA) said the doctors had “no option” and would strike from March 13, having voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action earlier this month.

The BMA said that junior doctors have called on Health Secretary Steve Barclay twice in the past week to meet them urgently, but no date had been set.