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England doctors start their ‘longest’ strike in health system history
Updated On: 14 July, 2023 08:12 AM IST | London | Agencies
The British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, has asked for a 35 per cent pay rise to bring junior doctors’ pay back to 2008 levels once inflation is taken into account
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Unite union members protest at the Guys and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. Pic/AP
Britain’s state-funded health care service is facing what is being described as its longest-ever strike as tens of thousands of doctors in England launched a five-day walkout over pay on Thursday.
So-called junior doctors, those who are at the early stages of their careers in the National Health Service in the years after medical school, started their latest strike at 7 am, with many of them making their case for a 35 per cent pay rise in picket lines outside hospitals across England.
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