Junior doctors in England are to strike for six days from April 7 amid an ongoing row over pay and jobs. The junior doctors, now called resident doctors, are demanding a 26 per cent pay rise. Resident Doctors on the picket line at St Thomas' Hospital Westminster on November 14 last yearBMA Resident Doctors Committee chairman Jack Fletcher said: 'We have been negotiating in good faith for weeks to try and end the simultaneous pay and jobs crises for resident doctors. MP Stuart Andrew, shadow Health Secretary, said: 'Labour gave junior doctors a 28% pay rise and promised to end the strikes, yet strikes continue. 'Only the Conservatives have common sense plans to ban doctors' strikes to protect both patients and the public finances.'
