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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Surgeons to work during junior doctor strike at London hospitals hit by cyber attack

Surgeons will be allowed to cross the picket line to work at London hospitals affected by a Russian cyber attack to prevent “dangerous” delays to cancer care during the junior doctor’s strike, a union has announced.

Junior doctors in the British Medical Association (BMA) will begin a five-day walkout from 7am on Thursday in a long-running dispute over pay.

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