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The British Medical Association is calling for junior doctors’ real-terms pay to be restored to 2009 levels

It is the longest doctors’ strike in the history of the NHS.

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