Doctors Set To Strike Without Emergency Cover

Junior doctors are to escalate their strike action with a full withdrawal of labour for the first time in the history of the NHS - raising fears that patients will be put in "harm's way". Previous industrial action by junior doctors  has seen emergency cover provided. The British Medical Association (BMA) blamed the move on "the continued refusal by the Government to step back from its decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors from August this year and resolve the dispute by re-en