Junior Doctors across England have recently voted in favour of continuing strike action demanding better pay, the British Medical Association has announced.
A total of 33,869 junior doctors voted on a turnout of 62 percent. The new mandate for strike action runs until September 19.
The poll reveals that around 98 percent of members of the British Medical Association who voted backed further walkouts on a turnout of 62 percent.
There have been 10 walkouts so far by junior doctors since the first one in March last year.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has asked for a 35 percent pay rise, but ministers have described the pay claim as unreasonable.
Two-thirds of junior doctors are members of the BMA. The vote result means the union has a strike mandate for another six months.
Junior doctors committee co-chairs Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi said: ”It has now been a year since we began strike action.
“That is a year of too many strikes. The government believed it could ignore, delay, and offer excuses long enough that we would simply give up.
“We ask the health secretary to come forward as soon as possible with a new offer – and make sure not a single further strike day need be called.”
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