The militant doctors' union is set to plunge the NHS into pre-Christmas chaos after the BMA announced a fresh junior doctors' strike this December.

Resident doctors - formally known as junior doctors - will join the picket lines from the 17th December to the 22nd December.

Confirming their latest round of industrial action, the union said: "After our last round of strike action, we gave @wesstreeting a window to deliver sufficient progress towards a viable deal on jobs and pay.

"That hasn’t happened. We’ve been given no choice but to return to the picket lines."

The five-day strike could cost the NHS around £240,000.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has won plaudits for refusing to give into the hardline union's pay demands, but the news is a huge blow to the Labour government, which ha

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