NHS doctors’ strike is ‘inevitable,’ says new BMA chair

Exclusive: doctors will use pay row to expose desperate state' of NHS after years of government neglect, Prof Philip Banfield warned

A doctor's strike is inevitable" and will expose how dangerously threadbare the Conservatives have left the health service, the profession's new leader has said.

In his first interview since taking over as the British Medical Association's chair of council, Prof Philip Banfield warned ministers that doctors will take the fight to them by using a pay dispute to tell the public patients are dying as a direct result of government neglect of the NHS.