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Junior doctors in Britain began a four-day strike over pay on Tuesday that is likely to cause unprecedented disruption to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), prompting the government to warn of a risk to patient safety.

Four days of industrial action begins as worsening dispute over pay threatens huge disruption to NHS

Health secretary Steve Barclay says pay demands ‘unrealistic’ and attacks union’s ‘militant stance’

Junior doctors will walk out until Saturday

Strike is expected to lead to 350,000 appointments including operations being cancelled

Hospitals to have as few as half the number of senior doctors available as during previous strike action, with cancer services and critical care among the casualties

Members of the British Medical Association to mount picket lines outside hospitals until Saturday

An estimated 350,000 appointments, including operations, could be cancelled this week due to the strike.

The BMA has highlighted the low pay as part of a new advertising campaign in support of the pay dispute by junior doctors in England.

One of the biggest strikes by medics starts today, with warnings of cancelled appointments and ­operations, as staff battle for better pay

NHS junior doctors have the support of more than half of the public, according to a new Ipsos poll.