Junior doctors in England are to strike for six days from April 7 amid an ongoing row over pay and jobs.
The latest round of industrial action will start just after the Easter long weekend from 7am on April 7 until 6.59am on April 13, the British Medical Association has said.
The junior doctors, now called resident doctors, are demanding a 26 per cent pay rise.
It will be their 15th separate strike in three years and one of the longest so far.
In February, BMA members voted overwhelmingly to extend industrial action for a further six months.
More than half of eligible members took part in the ballot, with 53 per cent voting, and 93 per cent backing the decision to continue strike action.
BMA Resident Doctors Committee chairman Jack Fletcher said: 'We have been negotiating in good faith for weeks to try and end the simultaneous pay and jobs crises for resident doctors.
'Frustratingly we had been making good progress right up until the point, in the last two weeks, when the Government began to shift the goalposts.
'As talks progressed it became clear that the money proposed for pay increases was now going to be spread over three years.
'This is combined with today's pay review body (DDRB) recommendation of a 3.5% uplift pointing to yet more years in which our pay, at best, barely treads water.'
British Medical Association Resident Doctors Committee chairman Jack Fletcher said the Government 'will need to act fast' to prevent the six-day walkout.
He said: 'We cannot ignore that, thanks to global events, economic indicators now point to years of greatly increased inflation.
'We are simply not going to put an offer to doctors that risks locking in further erosion of pay at a time when doctors continue to leave the UK for other countries.
'We are not closing the door on talks.
'We remain willing to negotiate and are eager to get a deal done if we can simply recapture the early positive spirit of negotiations.
'No strikes need to happen, but Government will need to act fast to prevent them.'
Health Secretary Wes Streeting previously said the Government cannot go any further on pay for junior doctors, suggesting it is likely the latest round of strikes will go ahead.
Hospital leaders have called for the union and the Government to enter talks via external mediators to try and resolve the conflict.
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