Junior hospital doctors in England began a five-day strike on Thursday, a week before a general election in which the state of the publicly funded National Health Service is a major issue. It follows nearly a dozen similar protests by doctors below specialist, consultant level over the last 18 months. The NHS is grappling with a massive backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent survey suggested that less than a quarter of Britons were satisfied with the NHS, an unprecedented level. As well as delays to operations and starting Read More