correspondent, nick triggle. remind us why the consultants and senior doctors are striking today. the dispute, like many others we see in the public sector, is about pay. the british medical association says that consultants have suffered pay erosion with below inflation pay rises for the past 15 years. that has prompted, as you say, the first strike by consultants since 2012. nhs bosses warned this will have the biggest impact of any of the strikes we have seen so far ofjunior doctors, nurses and ambulance staff. that is because consultants cannot be replaced. if you are relying on a consultant anaesthetist for a surgery to be carried out, that could mean a whole team of nurses and other theatre staff cannot work and other theatre staff cannot work and that list stops completely. so how much are consultants paid, then? consultant contracts are quite complex. there are essentially eight separate pay grades. the starting salary last year was 88,000, rising to 119,000 at the ve
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always get the best deals. england lose an early wicket as they chase down australia s first it s innings total in their must win ashes test at old trafford. and coming up on bbc news, qualifier matthewjordan is given the honour of teeing off the 151st open championship at his home course royal liverpool. good afternoon. there are concerns about severe disruption in hospitals in england, with a 48 hour strike by senior doctors. the consultants stopped work this morning in their dispute over pay, and they re providing emergency care only. it means thousands of planned appointments have had to be postponed. it s the first strike by consultants for a decade and it follows the recent industrial action byjunior doctors in england. here s our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. a rare act of protest today by some of the nhs s most senior doctors. led by their union, the bma, they were out on the picket line for the first consultant only strike since the 19705. we ve been tryin
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