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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

When is the the junior doctors strike and what does it mean for you?

Jacob King/PA

Junior doctors have begun a four-day strike across England amid a worsening dispute over pay, threatening huge disruption to the already ailing NHS.

The strike will see around 50,000 junior doctors take to picket lines, with Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, predicting it will be “the most disruptive industrial action in NHS history”.

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