NHS leaders have for the primary time stated junior physician and guide strike motion is “causing significant disruption and risk to patients”.
In a letter to the chair of the British Medical Association (BMA), Professor Phil Banfield, senior figures in NHS England stated they have been “extremely concerned” Christmas Day ranges of canopy have been “insufficient to ensure appropriate levels of patient safety” throughout native well being methods.
Doctors have been staging a three-day walkout – generally known as Christmas Day cowl – which started on Monday at 7am and coincides with the Tory Party convention.
The senior figures stated they have been “becoming increasingly concerned” that mixed durations of business motion have been “impacting our ability to manage individuals who require time-sensitive urgent treatment, for example cardiac, cancer or cardiovascular patients, or women needing urgent caesarean sections”.
“Although we recognise that consultants have been giving six weeks’ notice of industrial action, we are anxious this in itself is not sufficient to appropriately maintain safe care for these patients,” they wrote.
“This is particularly the case when periods of industrial action occur in close proximity – such as during the last month where two of the four weeks have been impacted.”
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Responding to the letter, Prof Banfield stated repeated planning failures by NHS England had made it tougher to organise secure putting.
He wrote: “We have always been open to discussing ways in which together we can maintain patient safety during industrial action, and we communicated this directly to colleagues at NHS England, most recently in a meeting just yesterday.”
Prof Banfield known as on NHS England to speak their issues to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and urged him to open pay negotiations with junior docs and consultants.
“As you know, no further industrial action has been called, and it is now incumbent upon the government to come to the table, drop their refusal to negotiate on pay and settle its dispute with doctors,” he wrote.
Radiographers are set to affix docs on picket strains at hospitals throughout England, piling further stress on NHS providers already disrupted by strike motion.
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