Junior doctors planning fresh three-day strike action that could bring chaos to NHS

MILITANT junior doctors are plotting monthly three-day strikes that could bring chaos to the NHS.

Officials met in London this weekend to discuss the walkouts after holding a poll on Facebook.

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It asked the 61,000 members of the Junior Doctors Contract Forum if they would back three-day walkouts.

More than 2,000 were in favour of fresh strikes and fewer than 100 against.

Poll organiser Vimal Ratheesh claimed that gave them a 98 per cent mandate for industrial action.

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The planned action would see junior doctors strike from 8am to 5pm on a Tuesday to Thursday starting next month.

It comes after five-day walkouts were called off last month amid serious patient safety concerns.

But the British Medical Association and Junior Doctors’ Committee kept open “a range of other actions”.

Medics are locked in a dispute with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over new contracts.

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A source said: “The Junior Doctors’ Committee is very militant and has been looking for any way to start up industrial action again.

“It seems this was too good an opportunity to miss.

“September’s action was suspended not cancelled so this is seen as a continuation of that rather than a new walkout.”

A BMA spokeswoman said: “The suspension of industrial action is still in place.”