Junior doctors have voted overwhelmingly to continue with strike action for a further six months as a long-running dispute over pay escalates. A staggering 98 per cent of junior doctors who voted were in favour of further industrial action. The mandate comes following on from the longest strike in NHS history. Strikes will last from April 3 until September 19, with the ballot also approving further action short of strikes. 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 strikes too many. …
