The British Medical Association has offered to call off a planned strike by junior doctors later this month if NHS bosses give permission for further time for negotiations. In a letter to Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of NHS Employers, the BMA chairman of council, Professor Philip Banfield, has asked him to agree to the extension, which he can do on behalf of hospital trusts. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We wrote to the Secretary of State and NHS employers to ask for an extension, because
00:05 we thought that was the quickest way of getting strikes called off. Obviously, if that extension
00:12 was granted, it would free up space for negotiation to continue. At a point in which the mood
00:20 of government is that it wants to find a resolution to this dispute, we can only take that uncertainty
00:36 so far. There is no further credible offer being tabled. We cannot run on empty promises
00:45 forever. We are losing doctors abroad. We felt duty-bound to do whatever it would take
00:54 to try and get this action called off in order to get a once-and-for-all solution to these
01:01 disputes.