Junior doctors on strike

Summary

Junior doctors in England are taking part in the second day of an all-out strike between 08:00 and 17:00 BST
Action affects emergency, maternity and intensive care for the first time in the long-running dispute
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt describes it as "bleak day" for NHS
Junior doctors are angry at the government's imposition of a new contract
The new contract makes it cheaper to rota doctors on at weekends, as part of plans for a seven-day NHS

Live Reporting

Alex Therrien and Rob Corp

Message to David Cameron from a retired professor on the picket linepublished at 12:54 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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'The idiot's guide to the junior doctors strike'published at 12:40 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
BBC assistant political editor explains what the strike is about
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Watch: PM says doctors' strike is 'quite wrong'published at 12:32 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Striking junior doctors join picket line in Warwickpublished at 12:27
Phil Mackie
Midlands correspondent, BBC News
About a dozen doctors have joined the picket line at Warwick Hospital.
The hospital says consultants have stepped in to ensure patient safety, but over the 24-hour period 22 clinics and 29 elective operations have been cancelled, affecting hundreds of patients.
Support for doctors comes from other unionspublished at 12:18
Peter Saull
BBC Radio Nottingham Political Reporter
These guys know a thing or two about striking.
Members of the national Union of Mineworkers (NUM) have joined junior doctors on the picket line at the King's Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
Junior doctors' strike: What patients need to knowpublished at 12:06
Junior doctors in England are on strike today and tomorrow from 08:00 to 17:00. The NHS says it is working hard to ensure as few patients as possible are affected, but what does this mean for people who need these services?
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- A&E: These services will continue to run throughout the strike but with other staff covering junior doctor roles
- To access urgent medical help: You can still call NHS 111, external, visit your GP or see an out-of-hours doctor at an urgent care centre or walk-in centre
- Visiting a GP: GPs may experience greater demand than normal, so it is best to contact your GP early if you need advice or an appointment, according to the NHS Choices website, external
- Pharmacies and dentists: The strikes do not include any of these healthcare professionals. Services should run as normal
Junior doctors' strike: Pancake day on the picket linepublished at 11:59 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Rahil Sheikh
BBC News Oxford
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Junior doctors are picketing with pancakes at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital
Junior doctors row: The dispute explainedpublished at 11:52 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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Ministers and junior doctors are locked in a long-running dispute. But what exactly is it all about? Find out here.
'Patients will suffer in the long term'published at 11:49 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Victoria Derbyshire
Lucy Booth, who had a procedure cancelled due to the last strike, said:
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I fully support the doctors' strike. I think there has been an element of scaremongering today from the government, to say that patients are going to suffer. I think actually patients will suffer in the long term if Jeremy Hunt doesn't back down on this."
PM: 'There was a good contract on the table'published at 11:47 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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David Cameron said he had full confidence in Jeremy Hunt.
The prime minister said he thought it was "quite wrong" for junior doctors to withdraw from emergency care.
"This has never happened in the history of the NHS - it's the wrong thing to do," he says.
Mr Cameron adds "there was a good contract on the table", with a 13.5% increase in basic pay, with 75% of doctors having their pay increased.
He said no one working legal hours would be worse off.
'Mental health already neglected'published at 11:38 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Press Association
About 20 medics at the Maudsley Hospital psychiatric unit, across the road from King's College Hospital, are on strike.
Psychiatric registrar Dr Jacob Bird told the Press Association the new contracts would include "severe" cuts to payments to doctors called out to non-residential mental health cases.
He told the Press Association:
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Mental health is somewhat neglected already. My concern is that with the imposition, the forcing-through of this contract, less doctors will go into psychiatry because of the impact it will have, particularly on non-residential on-call [doctors]."
BBC News health correspondent taking your questionspublished at 11:32 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
BBC health correspondent Dominic Hughes is at Leeds General Infirmary on the picket line with striking junior doctors - he's taking your questions live on the BBC News Facebook page.
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Expectant mother 'terrified' she will go into labour during strikepublished at 11:29 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Strikes affect me as I'm about to go into labour any day now and terrified it'll happen whilst this is going on. Not only am I classed as an 'increased risk' birth, which requires close observations and potential fast action, but also after two miscarriages prior to this pregnancy, and getting to this stage, the fear of if anything is wrong with the baby when it's born there will be less focus on recognising any problems terrifies me. We're told there will be consultants around - however, when you feel like when you get there you have no idea whether the usual level of care and quick response will be there, it's an extremely anxious couple of days for us at a time where we should be excited. I do sympathise with the junior doctors and understand they are striving for long-term improvements, but when you have an immediate medical concern you don't care about the future, just the here and now and the people you place your trust in in life or death situations.
Suzanne, from Gloucester
'Why are you striking?'published at 11:26 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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Strike about 'concern for patient safety'published at 11:17 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Victoria Derbyshire
The Victoria Derbyshire programme has been speaking to junior doctors throughout the morning who have been striking at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
One of them, Sarah, told the programme she was "emotional" about the strike and was "disappointed" and "frustrated" with the government.
She said she was "hopeful" the public would see junior doctors were striking because they were concerned about patient safety.
She added this was only thing that would make junior doctors strike.
More pictures from the picket linespublished at 11:11 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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Watch: Doctors on strike at Royal Berkshire Hospitalpublished at 11:03 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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Nick Clegg: 'Government needs to remove imposition'published at 10:55 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
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Hunt wants to be health secretary 'for several years'published at 10:42 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Earlier we told you that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he expected this to be his "last big job in politics".
Friends of his now say he wants time to complete the planned reforms to the NHS - this will include not only resolving the dispute with junior doctors but also increasing out of hours access to GPs surgeries and negotiating a new contract for hospital consultants.
He wants to be in the role for "several years", a source said.
Government 'not for backing down'published at 10:37 British Summer Time 26 April 2016
Victoria Derbyshire
The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said there had been a "pretty uncompromising reaction" from Jeremy Hunt and Downing Street over the contract dispute.
Norman said the government appeared to have "drawn a line in the sand" and were "not for backing down giving ground.They are determined to see this through come what may".
He said the government's game plan was to hope that pubic support for junior doctors would "fray" and that the British Medical Association's national leadership would "put the squeeze" on the junior doctors committee of the BMA, which the government believe is "much more hardline than the national leadership".