Junior doctors staged a second 24-hour strike on Wednesday (February 10), walking out at 8am.
The walkout comes in a dispute over the new contract that the Government want to introduce in order to facilitate a “24/7 NHS”.
Among other changes, this would see Saturdays classed as a normal working day, with higher payments to doctors scrapped.
A large picket line gathered outside York Hospital as the dispute showed no signs of ending.
Dr Veera Mirdavoudi, a junior doctor who works for the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, is also a representative of the British Medical Association.
He said doctors were “extremely angry” about the situation, and said the new contract would put patients at risk.
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In our video interview, recorded during the first walkout last month, he described the future of the NHS as “bleak” unless things can be turned around.
