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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Donna Ferguson

‘Biggest walkout NHS has ever seen’ will put patients at risk, health body warns

NHS consultants with placards reading 'fix consultant pay now and for the future' and 'consultant take-home pay has fallen by over a third over the last 14 years' on a picket line outside University College hospital, London, during industrial action in August 2023
NHS consultants – seen here on a picket line outside University College hospital, London, in August – will strike in England on Tuesday and Wednesday. Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

More patients than ever before will be put at risk when consultants and junior doctors begin the “biggest walkout the NHS has ever seen”, the body that speaks for health trusts has warned.

The latest round of industrial action in England, when consultants will strike in a dispute over pay on Tuesday and Wednesday and junior doctors on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, would force hospitals to cancel a higher number of appointments and operations than ever before, the NHS Confederation revealed.

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