A terminally ill cancer patient has spoken of her anger as junior doctors and consultants reach nearly 700 hours of strike action.

The trainee medics will end their latest three-day walkout at 7am today, taking their devastating tally to 22 days since March. 

Their senior colleagues have picketed for six days, including Wednesday when they staged a joint strike with junior doctors for the first time. 

The British Medical Association will order junior doctors and consultants off wards again for three days from October 2, to coincide with the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

Industrial action - described as ‘callous’ by Health Secretary Steve Barclay - has now lasted a total of 696 hours. 

Around a million appointments and operations are thought to have been cancelled over this period, with some patients delayed multiple times. 

It comes as NHS waiting lists stand at a record high of 7.7million.

A cancer patient given months to live has spoken of her anger after her chemotherapy was delayed. 

Flora White, 51, was due to see a specialist at Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire, on Wednesday ahead of her fourth round of therapy on Thursday.

But she now has to wait until October 2 for her appointment, adding extra ‘worry and stress’. 

Ms White, a mother of two, said cancer patients and patients suffering with serious conditions ‘shouldn’t be affected’ by industrial action, adding: ‘It’s our health at the end of the day.’