Junior doctors in England to strike for five days from 13 July

Strike will be longest single period of industrial action by junior doctors in history of health service

Junior doctors in England will strike for five days from 13 July in their longest single period of industrial action in the history of the health service, the British Medical Association has said.

The announcement was made as a BMA survey found junior doctors have been inundated with more opportunities to move abroad in the last four months than ever before. Just over half of the nearly 2,000 junior doctors surveyed said they had received more job advertisements from recruiters to overseas jobs since strikes were announced.