( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “concern for voters.” Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions. [CutID: <Cuts> UK-DOCTORS-STRIKE-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 19s Title: UK-DOCTORS-STRIKE-house-q-THUam Out-cue: concern for voters] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Junior doctors have been locked in the […]
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Another walkout by British doctors
( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “concern for voters.”
Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions.
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Time: 19s
Title: UK-DOCTORS-STRIKE-house-q-THUam
Out-cue: concern for voters]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Junior doctors have been locked in the pay dispute with the government since late 2022. The latest strike began Thursday and ends next Tuesday. That’s just two days before voters go to the polls to choose a new House of Commons.
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VERBATIM: The five-day strike by junior doctors in the early years of their careers comes just a week before the U.K. general election and shines a spotlight on the troubles besetting the National Health Service. Waiting lists for patients are at record highs. Polls show that the woeful state of public health is a top concern for voters.