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sharon barbour was outside the royal victoria infirmary in newcastle and gave me this update. well, luxmy, the doctors here on the picket line firstly are losing six days pay, three days before christmas, and i ask them about that, they feel so strongly about this dispute that they are willing to carry on the fight for what they say is pay restoration. they are also telling me a little bit about what conditions have been like in the number of patients they are now treating on trolleys, notjust in a&e but trolleys that are being part in wards because there is no more room. we know this hospital is at capacity, it is full, which is not where you want to be, as half your medical workforce walk out for six days, and that is days and nights, leaving the consultants to try and cover, and that has meant tens of thousands of operations have been cancelled and appointments have been cancelled, 1.2 million appointments have been cancelled through industrial action over the past year.