The junior doctors’ strike enters its second day today with a warning from London’s chief nurse Jane Clegg that its impact on patients will be felt for many weeks afterwards, at the same time as more positive signs that this could be the medics’ last walkout.
Ms Clegg says the combined effect of the earlier industrial action and the current strike — which is the longest in NHS history and which has already led to the cancellation of about one million appointments and operations nationwide — is “taking a toll” on patients and making people wait “too long” for treatment as hospitals struggle to reschedule.
