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in england have started a four—day strike that threatens to bring the worst disruption in the history of the health service. it runs all the way through to saturday morning, and could mean the cancellation of 350,000 appointments and operations. the doctors�* union is in a row with the government over pay forjunior doctors, with the british medical association sticking to its demand of a 35% pay rise and the government refusing to negotiate until what it sees as a more reasonable pay demand is met. catherine burns reports. what do we want? pay rise! how do we get it? strike! this...

hello and welcome to bbc news. we begin here in england — where thousands ofjunior doctors in england have started a four—day strike — that threatens to bring the worst disruption in the history of the health service. it runs all the way through to saturday morning — and could mean the cancellation of 350,000 appointments and operations. the doctors union is in a row with the government over pay forjunior doctors, with the british medical association sticking to its demand of a 35% pay rise and the government refusing to negotiate until what it sees as a more reasonable pay d...

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This whole process. 0ur ask has not changed, because all we're looking to do is restore the pay that juniors have lost. but at every opportunity that we might think we can break through, it seems they have another precondition, another hurdle, another obstacle for us to go through. nhs bosses will prioritise a&e and areas like maternity, neonatal and critical care. but they expect many, possibly around 350,000, routine appointments to be postponed. including philip fisher's surgery to tackle constant ear infections. he says it shouldn't have come to this. when i received the phone call, i was ...

Exposed the challenge. what we want to see the secretary of state do, and this is a significant improvement on what has happened with previous plans, we must see the ambition backed by investment and a credible plan for delivery. we have some really strong targets already in place — so there is an ambition that 75% of cancers are diagnosed early by 2028. we are some way off achieving that. there is an ambition that england is smoke—free by 2030. again, we are some way off that. and the reason why is we haven�*t had a credibly funded plan to support those ambitions. 0ur ask of the secreta...