LONDON: Resident doctors in England have called off strikes that were due to start next week after a last-minute government offer, their unions said on Saturday, raising the prospect of ending a long-running pay and staffing dispute. The walkout had been scheduled to run from Monday to Friday. It would have been the 16th in a series of stoppages since 2023 over what the union called years of pay erosion and staffing pressures across the National Health Service. The dispute began under the previous Conservative government.

The four-day strike was due to begin on Monday morning

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