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The fight for the NHS is on after junior doctors declared war on the Tories with an overwhelming vote for strikes this week.

Junior doctors will strike three times next month if they back industrial action in a ballot ending on Wednesday of this week.

As the Tories and their media mates go on the offensive against them, angry junior doctors spoke to Tomáš Tengely-Evans about the reality of the job—and why they’re fighting back

 

Dozens of angry campaigners protested outside the meeting of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (Health East) on Thursday of last week.

The British Medical Association (BMA) was to set to ballot its 56,000 junior doctor members for industrial action from Thursday of this week. 

The junior doctors’ revolt is growing. The British Medical Association (BMA) announced last week that it would ballot its 56,000 members for industrial action. 

More than 20,000 junior doctors and their supporters marched through central London yesterday, Saturday.

Growing resistance among junior doctors is blocking NHS attacks, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

The NHS is heading for a £2?billion deficit. New figures from health watchdog Monitor show that the NHS “overspent” by £930 million in three months.

Ambulance workers in Scotland have voted overwhelmingly for an official strike ballot.

More than 800 junior doctors marched in Manchester on Tuesday of last week to chants of “Tories out” and “strike, strike, strike”.