Junior doctors prepare for longest strike in NHS history
Junior doctors in England are to stage the longest strike in NHS history at a time when experts say the service is at its “most stretched”.
With the NHS under pressure from mounting Covid cases and other seasonal viruses, medics are to walk out for six days from Wednesday.
The industrial action, from 7am on Wednesday 3 January to 7am on Tuesday 9 January, marks a major escalation in the bitter row with the government over pay.
And it comes at one of the busiest times of the year for, raising fears over the service’s ability to keep patients safe.
