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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Hannah Moore

‘There’s only so much I can take’: England’s doctors on the picket line

BMA members on the picket line outside Manchester Royal Infirmary as junior doctors join consultants for their first combined strike in NHS history.
Junior doctors and consultants have joined forces on the picket line at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian

“We’re understaffed and underpaid, and why would you want to stay in that situation?”

Dan Veness, 23, started working as a junior doctor this year, but already he can see the huge problems the NHS is facing. Standing on the picket line at Manchester Royal Infirmary, he is taking part in the first joint strike between junior doctors and consultants ever to happen in England.

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