Junior doctors in England should call off their upcoming strike if major political parties pledge to reopen talks as a priority after the General Election, health leaders have said.
The NHS Confederation accused medics of causing real consternation with their walkout plans and said the move seems more like a publicity stunt than a constructive act.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has slammed a planned junior doctors' strike just days before the election accusing them of using the NHS as a 'political football.'