English junior doctors on first all-out strike over new contract

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Junior doctors in England began their first all-out strike in the nearly 70-year history of the National Health Service (NHS) on Tuesday, a dramatic escalation in a long-running dispute with the government over a new contract. Junior doctors, a term which covers recent medical school graduates right through to doctors who have been working for well over a decade, walked out from all services including accident and emergency, maternity and intensive care. NHS England said "military level" planning had gone into making sure that patients in need of urgent care would be properly treated, with more senior doctors known as consultants on hand to provide essential services. Read More http://ift.tt/1SwTHMZ

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