Doctors have confirmed they will go on strike for five days from Friday after crunch talks failed.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting failed to make a "significant" offer to avert the walkout, the British Medical Association said.
The union said a letter to their resident doctors committee (RDC) from Mr Streeting "did not go far enough to warrant calling off the strikes".
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