Junior Doctors Begin Fresh Strike Over Pay Dispute

NHS Providers executive says industrial action costs reached £1 billion

Junior doctor members of the British Medical Association on the picket line outside University College London Hospital at the start a four-day strike on Aug. 11, 2023. (Aaron Chown/PA))

Junior doctors in England on Friday began their fifth round of strikes in six months in an ongoing dispute over pay.

The four-day strike comes as the latest official figures show the NHS waiting list for hospital treatment grew to a new record of 7.57 million patients at the end of June.