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Strike action ‘only thing the Government listens to’ – junior doctors

Source: PA Wire

Strike action is the “only thing” the Government listens to, junior doctors have said, as they embarked on the longest walkout in NHS history.

Junior doctors in England are staging industrial action for six consecutive days in a major escalation of their bitter dispute with the Government over pay.

Medics said that they still have support of the public as they described having tea, coffee and even a lemon drizzle cake delivered to picket lines.

Ministers and the (BMA) were locked in talks for five weeks last

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