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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

NHS procedures axed by doctors’ strike ‘soar towards million mark’

Nearly a million medical procedures are on the verge of being postponed or cancelled as a result of the latest round of strikes by junior doctors, according to NHS bosses.

The British Medical Association medics began their fifth walkout at 7am on Friday and will not return to work until 7am on Tuesday in a bitter pay dispute with the Government.

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