It’s no surprise fellow medics are turning against junior doctors
When the BMA announced a new round of strikes they will have been prepared for a backlash from certain quarters. The criticism yesterday from Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May, who accused striking doctors of ‘playing politics’, won’t have come as a surprise. But what is different about this latest, unprecedented industrial action are the attacks on junior doctors now coming from fellow medics. For the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to intervene as they did last night indicates a significant shift in this drawn-out dispute. Here’s what they said in a statement: ‘The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is disappointed at the prospect of further sustained industrial action by junior doctors.