Abstract
The BMA hopes that balloting junior doctors over industrial action will itself pressure ministers into changing their plans to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England. The BMA will ballot junior doctors on industrial action from Thursday 5 November.1 The association has said that from this date ballot papers would arrive with junior doctor members who were eligible to vote in the ballot. The ballot will close on Wednesday 18 November. Speaking to the BMJ Live event in London on Friday 23 October, Johann Malawana, chair of the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee, said that the exercise of balloting junior doctors was about increasing the pressure on the government. “This is all about pressure,” he said. “What we …
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