Public opinion has turned on doctors’ strikes a new poll shows as Wes Streeting accused the British Medical Association of “juvenile delinquency” for planning to walk out over five consecutive days in the run-up to Christmas.
The health secretary branded the strike “irresponsible”, warning that the dates, just before the Christmas bank holidays and when the NHS is often in the midst of a ‘winter crisis’, represented a “different magnitude of risk” to previous industrial action.
