Strikes by doctors in England will go ahead this week after they rejected a last-ditch offer from health secretary Wes Streeting to avert a stoppage in the run-up to Christmas. The British Medical Association said 83% of its members, on a turnout of 65%, had voted to continue with the walkout in an online poll over the weekend. “Tens of thousands of frontline doctors have come together to say ‘no’ to what is clearly too little, too late,” BMA chair Jack Fletcher said in a statement, saying members had rejected the government’s latest offer on working conditions.
