Senior health officials have discussed banning UK doctors from going on strike, in a sign of growing desperation inside the government at resolving a three-year-long campaign of industrial action over pay.
Health secretary Wes Streeting has not ruled out the idea as pessimism mounts about the prospect of a deal with doctors in training, who are on a six-day walkout in England, the 15th strike in a long-running dispute.
High-level officials have raised the prospect of a ban on resident doctors staging strikes in meetings with colleagues in the Department of Health and Social Care, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
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