Senior doctors to be balloted over industrial action

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By Erin Dean and Ella Pickover, PA Media

Senior doctors in England are to be balloted over taking industrial action, the British Medical Association has announced.

The union said that simultaneous ballots of consultants and specialist, associate specialist, and specialty (SAS) doctors will run from 11 May until 6 July as the clinicians escalate their disputes with the government.