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Sabrieh, a junior doctor for eight years, has been handing out leaflets to the public this morning outside Tooting Broadway station with her two small children. She said: “I love my job and we all care about the service we provide.

“Ultimately a lot of us are really concerned and made a lot of sacrifices along the way and it has a lot to do with morale and feeling undervalued and not listened to. I have used the NHS and have had two kids, and have family who will use it, and of course I’m going to defend it.”

Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) Sabrieh, a jnr dr of 8 years, has been outside Tooting Broadway station with her kids to raise public awareness pic.twitter.com/rPEKIm5uaL

Jessica Wills, a medical student in her fourth year, said people have been supportive, stopping by the doctors’ stall and sending them cups of coffee throughout the morning.



“As a medical student we can’t have an official say on this but ultimately this [will] affect us longer than any of the current junior doctors,” she said. “I have wanted to be a doctor since I was seven. What concerns me is there’s been an 11% decrease in applications [for medicine] – what we are now facing is not what we signed up for.”

Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) Miranda Lewis, trainee GP & James Barr, a Cardiothoracic registrar, said infrastructure for 5 day NHS was inadequate pic.twitter.com/XwBRE25cBS

Handing out stickers to passersby outside St George’s hospital, Miranda Lewis, a GP trainee who has been at the hospital for 18 months, said: “Today my ward has four consultants – so more doctors with experience, so I have no doubt patients will be looked after.

“Most of these people coming in are staff. Some came in before 8am to do checks.”