JemmaPage published Nottingham hospitals preparing for junior doctors strike

The city's hospitals are drawing up contingency plans to cope when thousands of junior doctors walk out in protest against the Government's plans to change their weekend working hours. Some 98 per cent of the British Medical Association's junior medic members have voted in favour of a full strike. The first walkout will provide an "emergency care" level of service – like that on Christmas Day – followed by full strikes on December 8 and 16. Health Secretary Jeremy...