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Junior Doctors Vote to Strike as UK’s Health Crisis Deepens

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By Eamon Farhat

January 20, 2023 at 8:24 AM UTC

Updated on

January 20, 2023 at 6:37 PM UTC

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Junior doctors will join the wave of strikes hitting Britain’s state-run National Health Service after voting for industrial action in a dispute over pay.

A doctors’ labor group said Friday that 97% of newly-trained medics who participated in the ballot voted in favor of striking. Members want more than the 2% raise they received for the current fiscal year.