Doctors to be forced to work during strikes

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Minimum service level rules proposed to stop the dangers of successive 'co-ordinated and calculated' industrial action.

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19 Sep 2023

Doctors would be forced to work during strikes under government plans to tackle the dangers caused by successive walkouts.

Ministers are proposing the introduction of “minimum service level” regulations, meaning that some medics and nurses would be compelled to work during industrial action if public safety is at risk of being compromised.

The plans come amid fears of widespread NHS chaos as a result of strikes this week.

Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, said such measures were required in the face of “co-ordinated and calculated strike action” by junior and senior doctors.

Consultants will embark on a two-day strike on Tuesday. They will be joined on Wednesday by junior doctors – the first time both groups have held a strike on the same day – in what NHS senior leaders have described as a “nightmare” scenario.

Both groups will return to picket lines again on Oct 2-4, in strikes timed to coincide with the Tory party