{"id":9566,"date":"2025-12-15T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/doctors-vote-to-go-ahead-with-this-weeks-five-day-strike\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:45:28","slug":"doctors-vote-to-go-ahead-with-this-weeks-five-day-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/doctors-vote-to-go-ahead-with-this-weeks-five-day-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors vote to go ahead with this week&rsquo;s five-day strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&rsquo;s five-day doctor strike in England will go ahead after British Medical Association members voted to continue with a planned walkout despite a new offer from the government.<\/p>\n<p>The strike by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, is due to start at 07:00 on Wednesday with ministers warning patients will be put at risk because of the huge pressures on hospitals which are battling a wave of flu.<\/p>\n<p>Some 83% voted for the strike to go ahead in the online poll held over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The BMA agreed to the snap poll last week after the government came forward with a fresh deal which included increasing speciality training posts and covering out-of-pocket expenses like exam fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&rsquo;s five-day doctor strike in England will go ahead after British Medical Association members voted to continue with a planned walkout despite a new offer from the government. The strike by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, is due to start at 07:00 on Wednesday with ministers warning patients will be put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}