UK junior doctors stage longest-ever strike over pay dispute
Senior staff have been drafted in to cover the junior doctors' absence - but countless appointments are set to be cancelled.
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00:00 Doctors in England are due to walk out for six days starting on Wednesday morning.
00:06 The industrial action is the longest in the history of the UK's public health service,
00:11 the NHS.
00:13 The strike marks a major escalation in a bitter row with the government over pay.
00:18 The doctors want full pay restoration after seeing their pay decline since 2008-2009.
00:26 The problem they say is compounded by high inflation and the cost of living crisis.
00:31 - Cut! Cut!
00:33 (whooshing)