Junior doctors are today beginning four days of strike action after a row over pay. Medics formed picket lines outside a number of Greater Manchester hospitals this morning as members of the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA) began industrial action.
An estimated 350,000 appointments, including operations, are expected to be cancelled across the country as a result of the action that follows years of what critics say are real-terms pay cuts that the government refuses to rectify.
The government say will they will not enter talks unless the BMA drop their demand for a 35 percent pay rise and call-off the strikes.
