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NHS doctors have started their five-day walkout across emergency care services across England, with health secretary Wes Streeting branding them a ‘cartel’.

Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, after the British Medical Association and the government failed to agree on a deal regarding pay.

Hospitals will be placed under the most strain, as resident doctors make around half the workforce. But NHS England said patients should be able to still make appointments unless they have been told otherwise.

The long-running pay dispute has been ongoing since March 2023.

These fresh strikes mark the 13th over the last two years.

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