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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jane Kirby

Patients will be harmed when doctors go on strike this week, NHS leader warns

A junior doctor on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital, London (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Archive)

Some patients “will come to harm” when resident doctors go on strike later this week, a senior health leader has warned.

Daniel Elkeles, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, has already said industrial action could crush “fragile progress” and “wipe out a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fix the health service”.

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