Medical staff in England start 72-hour strike, bringing health services to ‘near standstill’
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Medical staff in England are holding three more days of historic walkouts this week in an effort to get increased wages and better working conditions, leaving health officials bracing for cancellations and alerting customers of the disrupted service.
Nearly 130,000 patient appointments were forced to be rescheduled last week and the National Health Service informed patients that junior doctors and consultants are working «Christmas Day» staffing levels for three days this week, meaning emergency care will be staffed with only minimal cover elsewhere.
«The first-ever joint industrial action by both consultants and junior doctors took place last week, seeing 129,913 inpatient and outpatient appointments rescheduled across the week. At the peak of the action, on Wednesday 20th September, there were 26,802 staff absent from work due to industrial action,» a statement from the health service read.
It continued: «Thousands more appointments are expected to be rescheduled this week, just days after the total number of postponements since strikes began exceeded one million appointments.»
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Junior doctors and consultants picket outside University College Hospital at the beginning of a three-day strike over pay, on Oct. 2, 2023, in London. (Leon Neal/Getty Images / Getty Images)
The strike, which started at 7 a.m. local time, comes just days after the doctors and consultants participated in the first-ever NHS simultaneous strikes last month. The strike brought care services to a «near standstill,» the NHS said.
«NHS services have had very little
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