Junior doctors in UK agree to pay talks with Govt after 3-day strike
London: Junior doctors of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the UK government are set to enter negotiations over pay following a three-day strike that caused tens of thousands of hospital patient appointments and surgeries to be cancelled, media reported, citing the country's health ministry.
On Monday, junior doctors in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) started a 72-hour strike over pay, joined by civil servants, London tube train drivers and teachers.
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"We are pleased the BMA has now accepted our offer to enter talks based on the same terms as with the agenda for change unions - which concluded positively this week," the Department for Health and Social Care said, as quoted by the Sky News broadcaster.
However, the ministry also said it regretted that "over 175,000 appointments and procedures were cancelled this week" due to the walkout.
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