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Resident doctors in England will go on strike in the run up to Christmas , the British Medical Association (BMA) has confirmed.

The BMA said the industrial actions follows "the continuing failure of the Government to make a credible offer on jobs or pay". Resident doctors, previously named junior doctors, make up around half of all doctors in the NHS . Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years' experience working as a hospital doctor, depending on their specialty, or up to three years in general practice.

The five-day walkout is planned to begin at 7am on December 17 and continue to 7am on December 22. The announcement comes as new evidence of the extent of the jobs shortage emerged this month, the BMA has said, with thousands of doctors turned away from Internal M

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