March 10 (Reuters) – Britain’s Health Secretary Steve Barclay invited British Medical Association (BMA) junior doctors on Friday for formal pay talks days before a strike.
“I have written to the BMA inviting them to formal pay talks on the same basis as other healthcare unions have agreed to, including canceling next week’s strike,” Barclay said in a tweet.
Last month, the BMA said tens of thousands of young doctors in England would go on strike for three days from March 13 in a dispute over pay, adding to a series of strikes by other staff in a system of tense health.
BMA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The strikes add to pressure on Britain’s state-funded National Health Service, which is already overburdened by staff shortages and record delays, and is experiencing waves of disruptive strikes by health workers.
Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bangalore; Edited by Leslie Adler and Grant McCool
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