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Half of the medical workforce will walk out tomorrow - what's happening to the NHS?

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Half of the country's medical workforce is heading out on strike in the morning. Hospital halls will be much quieter, GP surgeries will stall and patients will face more delays.

The country's top doctor has warned thousands of patients' will face postponements to routine care, including appointments and operations.

But senior NHS trust bosses have lambasted the government and the health service over officials failing to be aware - and sufficiently warn the public - of the risk of harm to patients over the historic 72-hour strike, according to reports from the Health Service Journal.

The sweeping strikes, in which some 64,000 doctors will walk out, follow rounds of industrial action from elsewhere in the NHS including nurses and ambulance workers.

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