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Senior hospital doctors will decide tomorrow whether to hold a ballot on limited strike action as their long-running dispute with district health boards grinds on.
Talks are stalled and the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists was urged by association president Jeff Brown on the first day of its two-day conference in Wellington yesterday to be bold. The dispute has run for 16 months and talks broke down again last week.
Mr Brown said the replacement of Health Minister Pete Hodgson by David Cunliffe increased the chances of resolving the dispute.
