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Junior doctors in the UK have begun a four-day strike over pay in what could be the most disruptive industrial action taken by healthcare workers yet. 

Bosses say they are concerned because of a shortage of consultants available to cover for striking staff

The British Medical Association is calling for junior doctors’ real-terms pay to be restored to 2009 levels

It is the longest doctors’ strike in the history of the NHS.

Members of the British Medical Association BMA and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association HCSA are taking part in the strike action

Doctors are mounting picket lines outside hospitals from 7am today until Saturday morning in the longest stoppage of the wave of unrest, which has seen other NHS workers take action since last year

Up to a quarter of a million appointments could be postponed in the longest stoppage of the wave of unrest in the UK.

Four days of industrial action begins as worsening dispute over pay threatens huge disruption to NHS

Junior doctors in Britain began a four-day strike over pay on Tuesday that is likely to cause unprecedented disruption to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), prompting the government to warn of a risk to patient safety.