Action cancelled at last minute following health secretary’s decision to bow to BMA demand and lift threat to force contract on 45000 trainee doctorsJunior doctors called off three days of planned strikes that would enjoy seriously disrupted NHS services after a last-minute agreement to hold further talks with Jeremy Hunt to try to agree the details of a new contract.
The dramatic breakthrough in the increasingly bitter dispute arrived only hours before the first strike was due to start at 8am on Tuesday, which would enjoy left many hospitals in England offering only the very limited range of services generally seen on Christmas Day.
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Source: theguardian.com