Doctors strike again amid flu crisis – The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  This is not an ordinary industrial dispute.

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  Resident doctors are absolutely determined to get full pay restoration.

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  Pay is important.

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  We must value our doctors in this country.

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  The trouble for West Streeting is that he's won the battle for the hearts and minds of the public,

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  but not the hearts and minds of the resident doctors.

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  Let's just be clear about the strikes.

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  They're dangerous and utterly irresponsible.

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  Why resident doctors are striking just before Christmas and what it means for the NHS dealing with a flu crisis.

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  From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

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  I'm joined by Dennis Campbell, who is health policy editor at The Guardian.

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  So resident doctors, formerly junior doctors,

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  are walking out today for the first day in a five-day strike just before Christmas.

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  Talk to me about the scale of the walkouts and the likely impact that they're going to have today and in the days coming.

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  So across England today, many, many thousands of resident doctors or on strike.

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  There are about 70,000 resident doctors in England.

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  That's about half of the NHS, the entire medical workforce.

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  So they're really important people to the smooth running of the NHS.

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  Many people refer to them as the workhorse of the NHS.

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