NHS faces catastrophic impact as junior doctors plan most disruptive strike yet.

Junior doctors in England are set to stage a four-day strike starting on Tuesday, which is expected to be the most disruptive in the history of the National Health Service (NHS). The British Medical Association (BMA) members in planned and emergency care will walk out, with more than a quarter of a million appointments and operations expected to be cancelled. The union said there were plans to pull doctors off picket lines if lives were in immediate danger. Junior doctors are demanding a 35% increase in pay, to compensate for 15 years of below-inflation wage increases.