2 w. ago Stark vid shows patients left in hospital corridors hours before doctors walk out on strike putting ‘lives at risk’

SHOCKING footage shows patients lined up in beds along hospital corridors - hours before a "dangerous" junior doctors' strike begins. Pensioners were among those seen waiting on rows of trolleys outside A&E wards at the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in Lancashire. The footage - secretly filmed by ITV News - lays bare the "super-flu" crisis,...

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2 w. ago ‘Dangerous’ junior doctors’ strike begins today – putting ‘lives at risk’ as super flu cripples NHS

NHS patients should brace for long wait misery over Christmas as doctors’ strikes starting today will hit harder than previous walkouts. The British Medical Association voted to press ahead with the five-day walkout that will last until Monday. Health Secretary Wes Streeting called the decision “irresponsible and dangerous”. It comes at the height of a...

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3 w. ago Militant doctors putting lives at risk by striking during superflu they need to realise what’s at stake, Home Sec slams

STRIKING doctors are "putting lives at risk" and "need to realise what's at stake", the Home Secretary has warned. Shabana Mahmood has said hospitals are already buckling under “huge strain” as a brutal outbreak sweeps the country. She also urged resident doctors to accept the pay deal on the table. It echoes what Prime Minister...

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3 w. ago Britain facing 'tsunami of flu' as NHS in 'most precarious position since pandemic'

Health Secretary Wes Streeting warns of super flu 'tsunami' and issues direct appeal to NHS doctors - warning that a strike is 'choosing to put lives at risk this Christmas'

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3 w. ago Doctors' strike risks 'fatal harm' of patients as flu surge could collapse NHS

The Health Secretary said he was 'genuinely fearful' for the NHS if junior doctors walk out, claiming that tackling the mutant flu strain is 'probably the worst pressure the NHS has faced since Covid'.

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3 w. ago Super flu – latest: Streeting says ‘terrifying’ virus surge and doctors’ strike could collapse NHS

Hospitalisations for flu in England hit highest ever levels for this time of year

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3 w. ago Super flu – latest: Streeting ‘genuinely fearful’ of NHS collapse as virus surges ahead of doctors’ strike

Hospitalisations for flu in England hit highest ever levels for this time of year

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3 w. ago Doctors’ strike over Christmas a different degree of risk, says Wes Streeting

The Health Secretary has offered to extend the British Medical Association’s strike mandate if it calls off the action over the festive period.

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