Doctors' strike reduces UK hospitals to 'Christmas Day' service - in pictures

  • NHS consultants and junior doctors were on September 20 holding their first joint strike, reducing staff to Christmas Day levels. Getty Images
    NHS consultants and junior doctors were on September 20 holding their first joint strike, reducing staff to Christmas Day levels. Getty Images
  • NHS workers at a picket line outside University College Hospital, central London. AFP
    NHS workers at a picket line outside University College Hospital, central London. AFP
  • Junior doctors and medical consultants on the picket line outside Leeds General Infirmary. PA
    Junior doctors and medical consultants on the picket line outside Leeds General Infirmary. PA
  • A junior doctor on a picket line outside Whittington Hospital, north London. Getty Images
    A junior doctor on a picket line outside Whittington Hospital, north London. Getty Images
  • A health worker protests outside St Thomas’s Hospital, just south of the Thames in London. Reuters
    A health worker protests outside St Thomas’s Hospital, just south of the Thames in London. Reuters
  • A protest outside Whittington Hospital. Getty Images
    A protest outside Whittington Hospital. Getty Images