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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Michael Howie

'Super flu' is posing threat to NHS unlike any since Covid pandemic, warns Wes Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned resident doctors that strikes at Christmas could be “the Jenga piece” that forces the NHS to collapse.

Writing in The Times, Mr Streeting said a huge jump in flu cases has left the NHS facing a “challenge unlike any it has seen since the pandemic” and urged resident doctors to accept the Government’s offer and end their actions.

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