Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services just days before the UK general election. The five-day strike by junior doctors on Thursday shines a spotlight on the troubles besetting the chronically underfunded National Health Service, Britain’s state-funded public health system, a topic that is a top concern for voters going to the polls on July 4.

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