How Wednesday 15 March's strikes affect you
When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt stands up in parliament to deliver his Budget at lunchtime on Wednesday, he might well hear a crowd of protesters heading in his direction.
It is not likely to affect the delivery of the Budget though as it doesn't involve some of the higher paid mandarins at the Treasury. Junior doctors make up about 45% of the medical workforce, and two-thirds of them are members of the British Medical Association and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association unions which are organising the strike.Consultants and other senior doctors are being drafted in to provide cover.Industrial action by nurses over the winter caused some trusts to cancel 20% of routine treatments.
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