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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

London's chief nurse warns impact of longest-ever junior doctors strike will be felt 'for weeks'

The impact of the longest junior doctors’ strike in history will be felt “for weeks”, London’s most senior nurse warned on Thursday, as medics walked out for second day in a row.

Jane Clegg, chief nurse for the NHS in London, said that appointments and operations that have been cancelled due to industrial action “won’t be rescheduled as soon as we would like” as hospitals battle a surge in winter viruses.

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