Junior Doctors Strike Outside Royal Liverpool Hospital
Around 40 junior doctors and supporters joined a picket line outside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital for the fourth strike.
Thousands of junior doctors across England are on strike in a bitter dispute with the Government over a new contract. More than 5,100 procedures and operations have been postponed as a result of the 48-hour walkout, which began at 8am.
This is the fourth stoppage in the dispute, with almost 25,000 procedures cancelled overall since industrial action began and the second 48-hour strike within a month.
Junior doctors will provide emergency care only during the strike, which is expected to hit hospitals hard so soon after the Easter break.
The first full walkout in the history of the NHS by junior doctors is planned for later this month, when doctors will withdraw all labour and provide no emergency cover.
Junior doctors from all departments of the Liverpool hospital gathered at the main entrance with signs and banners showing their unity against the new contracts introduced by the government.