The militant doctors' union is set to plunge the NHS into pre-Christmas chaos after the BMA announced a fresh junior doctors' strike this December.
Resident doctors - formally known as junior doctors - will join the picket lines from the 17th December to the 22nd December.
Confirming their latest round of industrial action, the union said: "After our last round of strike action, we gave @wesstreeting a window to deliver sufficient progress towards a viable deal on jobs and pay.
"That hasn’t happened.
"We’ve been given no choice but to return to the picket lines."
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has won plaudits for refusing to give into the hardline union's pay demands, but the news is a huge blow to the Labour government, which has made reducing waiting lists a key part of its programme.
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