Hundreds of thousands of health workers walked out on strike today, many for the first time in their lives, in protest at the Government's decision not to give them a recommended 1% pay rise.
Midwives, nurses, paramedics, ambulance staff, and hospital porters and cleaners mounted picket lines across England from 7am for four hours, while action will be taken later today in Northern Ireland.
Medical staff were "voting with their feet" today as they took part in a four hour strike about pay.
Janet Maiden, a nurse who joined the picket line at University College Hospital London, said: "'We deserve decent pay. It's well documented care is better by a well motivated workforce."
She told ITV News: "People are seriously voting with their feet, people are talking about leaving nursing."
ITV News' Rebecca Barry reports:
With thousands of NHS staff expected to go on strike today in a row over pay, here is a list of those hospitals affected.
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