The British Medical Association (BMA) said the ballot of first-year resident doctors saw 97% vote for strike action, providing a “mandate for industrial action alongside the linked dispute over eroded pay”.
The voter turnout was 65%, it added.
The BMA said no strikes are currently planned, but current talks with the government on pay “will now have to produce a solution on jobs as well as the 21% pay erosion resident doctors have endured since 2008 to avoid future action.”
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