Junior doctors, DHBs dispute working while on strike

Junior doctors and their employers are at loggerheads over how many doctors have been turning up to work during the current strike. At 8 o'clock this morning the doctors will begin the fifth and final day in their latest strike at all public hospitals except Christchurch over a stalemate in employment talks. Yesterday district health boards said up to 60 percent of the doctors overall, and 72 percent of registrars, have worked throughout the strike. The DHBs' spokesperson, Peter Bramley, says support for the strike among the doctors, also known as resident medical officers, or RMOs, has been falling.