Junior doctors in Northern Ireland are staging another 48-hour walkout.
They are taking part in a strike from 7am this morning until to 7am on Saturday over pay and staff retention.It follows a 48-hour strike from 22-24 May and will affect hospitals and GP surgeries across the region.
It says newly qualified medics in Northern Ireland see colleagues working elsewhere in the UK and in other jurisdictions getting better pay and conditions for less pressurised workloads, and warned doctors are leaving the health service in increasing numbers. They said that when the ballot for the industrial action was launched, junior doctors along with all health service staff had not received a pay award for 2023/24.
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