Doctors’ leaders accuse NHS bosses of bowing to political pressure over strikes
Doctors’ leaders have accused NHS bosses of bowing to political pressure in a row over striking medics being called back to work.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to the chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, to say the process by which striking junior doctors can be called back to work due to “unexpected and extreme circumstances” is at risk of collapse because of a failure by NHS bosses to follow it.
The BMA and NHS England have agreed a system for derogations, in which junior doctors return to work
