The first all-out strike by National Health Service junior doctors in England is underway.
Thousands of junior doctors are walking off emergency and routine care in a row with the government over a new contract.
Patients are being asked to stay away from hospitals unless necessary - and thousands of operations and procedures have been postponed or cancelled.
Junior doctors are angry at a proposed pay deal as the government attempts to make the NHS offer more of a 7 day service.
Reporter Charlotte Wright is at the Department of Health in Westminster.
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Thousands of junior doctors are walking off emergency and routine care in a row with the government over a new contract.
Patients are being asked to stay away from hospitals unless necessary - and thousands of operations and procedures have been postponed or cancelled.
Junior doctors are angry at a proposed pay deal as the government attempts to make the NHS offer more of a 7 day service.
Reporter Charlotte Wright is at the Department of Health in Westminster.
IN: "Doctors…
OUT: …thousand."
DUR: 47 seconds
http://www.fsnradionews.com/feeds/0426strike-wright1.mp3