JUNIOR doctors are to stage further industrial action in the row over the controversial contract for training medics.
The British Medical Association's Council approved further industrial action at a meeting this afternoon as the bitter row between leading doctors and the government continues.
Details of what action will be taken are yet to be announced.
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Earlier this month, Ellen McCourt, who chairs the BMA's junior doctors committee (JDC), said that the JDC was asking the BMA Council to authorise a "rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September".
Strikes took place between January and April after junior doctors failed to come to an agreement with the government over a proposed new contract.
Furness General Hospital was one of the places where junior doctors took to the picket lines.
Tens of thousands of operations and appointments had to be cancelled and rescheduled for a later date as a result.
In July, the government announced it would impose a new contract after junior doctors and medical students voted to reject a contract brokered between health leaders and the BMA.
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