Junior doctors in England will walk out for six days from Wednesday amid warnings that the NHS is grappling with “one of the most difficult starts to the year” it has “ever faced”.
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said on Tuesday the health service was starting the year “on the back foot” as it contends with the longest strike in its history.
The walkout will have an impact on almost all routine care as consultants are asked to step in for their junior doctor colleagues, who make up about half of the medical workforce.
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