BMA to ballot senior doctors in England over strikes as pay dispute escalates

Union says there has been ‘far too little progress’ in talks over pay and career development

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Senior doctors in England are to be balloted over the prospect of strikes, the British Medical Association has announced.

The union said that simultaneous ballots of consultants and specialist, associate specialist and speciality (SAS) doctors would run from 11 May to 6 July as both sets of medics escalate their disputes with the government.