An 'exodus', 'leaving in droves', 'crisis' of understaffing, are just some of the ways doctors on the picket lines described the current state of the NHS. This was as medics staged a mammoth 72-hour walk out at major trusts across Greater Manchester this morning.
Strikers at the Manchester Royal Infirmary picketed outside their own departments on the huge estate before coming together on Hathersage Road and marching through the grounds chanting 'claps don't pay the bills'. Homemade signs casting their dire opinions on the state of the NHS matched the frustration and sadness of those who spoke to the Manchester Evening News at what they see everyday.
Trainee A&E doctor, Joseph Williams, gave a bleak insight into A&E as motorists sounded their support along the ever busy Plodder Lane outside the Royal Bolton Hospital. "Just yesterday there were people who had been waiting two days for a bed on a ward," he told the MEN.
