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Wes Streeting has made a fresh package of offers to resident doctors in a bid to avert strike action.

Resident doctors in England , formerly known as junior doctors, are set to strike for five days from Friday next week in an ongoing row over jobs and pay.

The British Medical Association (BMA) said resident doctors will walk out from 7am on November 14 to 7am on November 19.

Health and Social Care Secretary Mr Streeting has now set out a package of measures and called on doctors to call off the “unnecessary” strike action.

The package includes doubling speciality tra

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