Healthcare workers, how do you feel about an all-out junior doctors' protest?

Junior doctors are to go on a2-day, all-out protest, in which even emergency cover will be withdrawn.

In a dramatic escalation of their strike against the latest contract that the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, policies to impose, junior doctors in England will stage the first all-out strikes on 26 and 27 April.

Unlike the 4 walkouts they have held since the month of January, they will not report for duty even in medical settings that offer critical care, like A&E, emergency surgery and maternity.

Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, the national medical director of NHS England, has labeled the action reckless, unethical, a breach of the medical profession’s fundamental duty to “do no harm” and a shift that will destroy the public’s trust in doctors.

The British Medical Association reassured patients that care will be safe on protest days because consultants will undertake junior colleagues’ roles.