Junior doctors in England have announced a new 72-hour walkout in June after the latest round of government pay talks broke down.
The strike will take place between 07:00 on Wednesday 14 June and 07:00 on Saturday 17 June.
The British Medical Association (BMA) union, which represents doctors and medical students, said the government’s offer of a 5% rise was not “credible”.
This will be the third strike by junior doctors since the pay dispute began.
The BMA said strikes will take place “throughout summer” if the government does not change its position, with a minimum of three days of walkouts a month.
The union has been asking for a 35% rise, and previously said only this will do to make up for 15 years of below-inflation rises.
Ministers have previously called that pay claim “unaffordable” but have said the door remained open to “constructive conversations” to find a way forward.
Dr Vivek Trivedi and Dr Robert Laurenson, co-chairs of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee, said the BMA had had three weeks of negotiations with the government but that ministers would not recognise “the scale of our pay erosion”, which they said is equivalent to 26% cut over the last 15 years.
This is the amount pay has fallen once inflation is taken into account, the BMA says.
Junior doctors staged a four-day walkout in April, after the offer of a 5% pay rise and a one-off payment of at least £1,655 was made to NHS staff.
This offer to staff including nurses, ambulance workers and physios was on top of the 4.75% pay rise they received last year – in comparison junior doctors received around 2% last year.
Junior doctors make up around half of all hospital doctors in England and a quarter of all GPs.
