The UK government has invited leaders of specialist, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors and junior doctors in England to enter negotiations in a bid to avert further strike action. The move came just days after the government and consultants’ leaders agreed to hold talks in a bid to avert more strikes by senior doctors in England over pay.1
The NHS has faced nearly a year of strike action, with junior doctors and consultants staging several walkouts in recent months. SAS doctors looked set to join them after …