More than 175,000 NHS appointments were lost as junior doctors went on strike this week amid a pay dispute
The doctors went on strike from 7am on Monday, March 13 to the same time on Thursday, March 16 because of a pay dispute.
NHS medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said the strike has been on "an unprecedented scale and had a greater impact than all the other industrial action we have seen so far this winter combined". Leaders of junior doctors want an early meeting with Health Secretary Steve Barclay to help resolve their pay dispute, which led this week's walkout.
The union is demanding "pay restoration" for junior doctors, who can have many years' experience and make up about 45% of the medical workforce.
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