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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shorts. I'm Lucy Dunn and I'm joined today by James Crackup

and Kate Andrews. So the big story of the week has been the junior doctor strikes,

junior doctors in NHS England have undertaken an unprecedented 96 hours of strike action

over pedisputes. James, can you tell us a little more about what exactly has been going on this week?

So this week we've got junior doctors who are all very junior,

everybody below consultant have walked out of work for four days, which people who run

hospitals and the NHS will tell you is an incredibly conveniently timed strike because the NHS

is just trying to cope with the bank holiday weekend when people get sick and ill and don't go

treatment until normally the week after the holiday is very busy. So the strikes have been time

for maximum disruption of the health service. So very bare knuckle tactics from the junior

to the BMA. And Kate, yes do we saw the nursing unions reject the government's pay offer

that had been offered to them after they'd gone out and strike. Do you think seeing junior

doctors striking for a 35% pay restoration has any impact on this? So could joints nursing

and doctors strikes, for example, be on the horizon? What's the fallout? It is suspected that

the Royal College of Nurses and the British Medical Association and their members may team up

to do some kind of joint strike that could prove utterly disastrous for the NHS for waiting times

for cancelled operations. That would be like nothing we've seen yet. And it is possible that

the current strike has had some impact. Although there has been a lot of speculation for some time now

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