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NHS warning over 'risky behaviour' as four-day junior doctor strike begins

NHS leaders have issued advice as a four-day walk-out begins

Liverpool Echo

NHS 111 waiting times criticised after 'almost one in five callers hang up in frustration'

Research suggests the average time taken to answer calls is 25 minutes, leaving many to simply give up trying to speak to someone

Wales Online

What the papers say – April 11

The fresh round of junior doctors’ strikes dominates the front pages.

The Independent UK

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Patient safety fears as junior doctors begin four-day walkout

An estimated 350,000 appointments, including operations, could be cancelled this week due to the strike.

The Independent UK

Junior doctors on £14-an-hour as poor pay revealed and Tories refuse to start talks

One of the biggest strikes by medics starts today, with warnings of cancelled appointments and operations, as staff battle for better pay

Daily Mirror

Millions of calls to NHS 111 dropped last year as average time to answer stretches to 25 minutes

Almost one in five callers to NHS 111 gave up before speaking to anyone, according to new research released today

Chronicle Live

Tory ‘neglect’ blamed for 3.6m abandoned calls to NHS 111 in England

Callers wait so long that nearly one in five hang up, finds Liberal Democrat commissioned analysis

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Almost four million calls to NHS 111 dropped amid long waits – analysis

Some 3.7 million calls to the helpline – equivalent to more than 10,000 a day – were abandoned, research shows.

The Independent UK

Hospital bosses ‘concerned’ about overnight care during junior doctors strike

Patient care is ‘on a knife edge’ as up to 350,000 appointments axed

Evening Standard

Real cost of junior doctors’ strike revealed in leaked documents as births face cancellation and funerals delayed

Hospitals to have as few as half the number of senior doctors available as during previous strike action, with cancer services and critical care among the casualties

The Independent UK

Junior doctors ‘may keep striking for another year’ says BMA insider

Warning comes on eve of England’s 61,000 junior doctors beginning four-day action

The Guardian - UK

Jesmond widower’s anger at ‘slap in the face’ Government social care cuts

Bill Wilson is furious that the Government has reneged on a social care funding pledge.

Chronicle Live

NHS underfunding is causing patient deaths, not doctors’ strikes

Letter: Dr Stephen Vallely lends his support to junior doctors who are striking this week to highlight dangerous staffing levels

The Guardian - UK

EXPLAINED: Why junior doctors in Scotland are not on strike

Junior doctors in England are set to stage four days of strike action – leading to confusion on whether junior doctors in Scotland are also taking…

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The Independent UK

Why are junior doctors striking?

Health secretary Steve Barclay says pay demands ‘unrealistic’ and attacks union’s ‘militant stance’

The Independent UK

Junior doctors strike ‘immediate risk to patient safety’, NHS chiefs warn

NHS Confederation calls for Acas to bring government and doctors to the table for talks

The Independent UK

All the UK strike dates confirmed for April 2023

Junior doctors joining teachers, Passport Office staff and driving examiners in taking action this month

The Guardian - UK

Junior doctors’ strike will have ‘catastrophic impact’ on waiting lists

NHS Confederation boss says up to 350,000 appointments likely to be cancelled during four-day strike

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Daily Record

Health failures are tougher to watch than SNP putting politics in gutter

Daily Record columnist Anas Sarwar says it is harder for him to watch the crisis in our NHS than the one in the SNP.

The Guardian - UK

Divided by Annabel Sowemimo review – the roots of racism in medicine

From the treatment of BAME patients historically to the disproportionate number of Covid deaths, this important study by an NHS doctor exposes discrimination in healthcare

Bristol Post

Bristol dental practice among 85 set to close at the end of June

Bupa Dental Care has announced its St Pauls branch will be closing

The Guardian - UK

An imploding health service underpins junior doctors’ radicalisation

With real pay down 26% since 2008 and demoralised workplaces, medics are striking not out of militancy but from deep-rooted frustration

The Independent UK

Ambulance crisis ‘horror’ forcing Britons to make their own way to hospital

One in three people say they have had to drive or even take public transport to provide emergency care to their loved ones

Daily Record

Healthy Scots teen's life 'at standstill' with migraines caused by egg-sized mass in skull

Jack Dow has been diagnosed with AVM and requires complicated skull surgery which the NHS cannot provide and has halted his hopes of joining the Royal Marines.

The Independent UK

Emergency care to be prioritised during junior doctors’ strike, says NHS England

England’s top doctor has warned that the walkouts are set to be ‘the most disruptive industrial action in NHS history’.

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