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The total waiting list for treatment in England has also hit a new record high.

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’

The Health Secretary said the walkouts have ‘clearly been timed to have an impact on patients’.

London (AFP) - Doctors working in England's public health service on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the most disruptive strike in its history, in a dispute over pay and working conditions.

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

Up to a quarter of a million appointments could be postponed in the longest stoppage of the wave of unrest in the UK.

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

London (AFP) - The public health service in England was on Tuesday braced for "the most disruptive industrial action" in its history as junior doctors walk out over pay and working conditions.