Junior doctors across the country have today (March 13) begun three days of strike action, with tens of thousands of appointments and operations cancelled.
Greater Manchester itself is seeing picket lines at all its major hospitals, with roughly 64,000 junior doctors across the country taking part in industrial action making up roughly half of the country's medical workforce.
The junior doctors striking are asking for better pay after years of inflation and stagnating wages, with British Medical Associations and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association unions in pursuit of a 26% pay rise as well as better working conditions.
They argue that the current pay and conditions are driving health professionals away from the industry, leading to dangerously short staffing and consequently unsafe patient care.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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