Hospital staff in Newcastle begin six-day industrial action as colleagues strike across England
It was a morning of strikingly mixed emotions as about 50 junior doctors joined a picket line outside Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI): none wanted to be there but all thought they had no option.
Lauren Wallace, a doctor in the plastic surgery department, was carrying a placard featuring some updated Dolly Parton lyrics: “Workin’ nine to nine / It’s no way to make a livin’ …”
