An overwhelming 93.4% of resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – voted for further strike action, the British Medical Association announced.
Dr Jack Fletcher, chairman of the BMA’s resident doctors committee, said: “None of this needs to mean more strikes.
“In recent weeks, the Government has shown an improved approach in tone compared with the name-calling we saw late last year.
“A deal is there to be done: a new jobs package and an offer raising pay fairly over several years can be worked out through goodwill on both sides, in the interests of patients, staff and the whole NHS.”
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