Doctors Union Asks Conciliation Service Acas to Help Break Deadlock Over Strikes

Striking junior doctors on the picket line outside St. Thomas's Hospital in London, on April 12, 2023. Jordan Pettitt/PA Media

A British doctors union has asked the conciliation service Acas to broker talks with the government amid the continuing junior doctors’ strike over a bitter pay dispute.

Junior doctors across England have entered the second day of their four-day strike, which is causing serious disruption to the National Health Service (NHS).