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Resident doctors vote to strike ahead of Christmas
The Independent
|December 02, 2025
Five-day walkout comes as talks between the BMA and health secretary falter
Resident doctors in England will go on strike from 17 to 22 December, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced.
The five-day strike in the run-up to Christmas comes as doctors accuse the government of failing to make “sufficient progress towards a viable deal on jobs and pay”.
In an email to doctors seen by The Independent, the BMA said it “gave [health secretary] Wes Streeting a window of opportunity to get back round the table” in a letter from 19 November.
The email read: “Today is 1 December. The secretary of state has not written to us and instead oversaw thousands of resident doctors turned away from IMT posts, all the while trying to push a real-terms pay cut onto us in 2026.”
Mr Streeting has described it as a “cynical attempt to wreck Christmas” and said the BMA has chosen to strike when it will “cause maximum disruption, causing untold anxiety”.
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