The doctors were only providing emergency cover during the 24-hour walkout, which got underway this morning
The strike has gone ahead despite a last minute plea from Cameron for doctors to call off their action, warning it would cause “real difficulties for patients and potentially worse.”
The walkout comes after talks between the union and the government failed to reach agreement on the new contract.
There are more than 55,000 junior doctors in England, a position covering people who have just graduated from medical school through to those with more than a decade of experience.
They represent a third of the medical workforce, and just over 37,000 are BMA members.
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