Abstract
The past year will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous for the medical profession in England. After a few years of contract negotiations between the British Medical Association (BMA) and the government Department of Health, a breakdown in relations, largely unprecedented and unseen by the current working generation of doctors, reached melting point. In April 2016, for the first time in the near 70-year history of the National Health Service (NHS), junior doctors in England went on 2 days of all-out strike. This represented the fifth strike among junior doctors since January in the same year, but until April, strike action had always excluded coverage of emergency care services.
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