Doctors’ leaders hinted at an end to a damaging series of NHS walkouts on Wednesday as junior medics began the longest-ever strike in the history of the health service. The number of operations and appointments axed because of the action is expected to top a million this week, and comes on the heels of more than a year of disputes involving nurses and consultants.
But the union representing junior doctors signalled a softening in its position at the start of six days of industrial action, as NHS bosses called for “light at the end of the tunnel”.
