This footage was filmed and produced 20 December 2023.

Junior doctors stand on a picket line outside Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham.

Patients have been warned that there will be “significant disruption” to NHS services as junior doctors in England have gone out on strike during one of the busiest periods of the year.

Doctors in training – which make up around half of the medical workforce in the NHS – began their 72-hour strike at 7am on December 20.

NHS leaders have expressed “disappointment” that talks between the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Government broke down and said that the fresh round of industrial action has come at the “worst possible time” for the health service.