'BMA should be putting patients first' - PM
Theresa May is accusing junior doctors' leaders of "playing politics" after they announced a five-day strike, starting a week on Monday.
The government says 100,000 operations and about a million appointments around the country will be cancelled.
It is another escalation in the long-running row over a new contract, changing the pay and conditions for doctors below consultant level.
01 Sep 2016
- From the section UK