Patients Urged To Go To Appointments During Strike

Patients successful nan East of England person been encouraged to be their appointments arsenic resident doctors' strikes continue.

Industrial action complete salary will proceed until 07:00 BST connected Wednesday 30 July, but patients should still be their appointments unless contacted to reschedule, said NHS England.

Adam Cayley, nan main operating serviceman for NHS England successful nan East, thanked unit for their "hard activity complete nan weekend" and "continued efforts successful nan days ahead".

The latest bid of strikes began connected Friday and patients who request emergency aesculapian attraction person been told to usage 999 aliases spell to A&E arsenic normal.

Mr Cayley said: "Whilst it is inevitable that strikes mean immoderate appointments and procedures cannot spell up arsenic planned, it's acknowledgment to nan immense efforts of NHS teams successful nan region that we are continuing to supply arsenic galore arsenic we can.

"Our proposal remains to please be your assignment unless you person been contacted straight to reschedule.

"If it's an emergency, you should dial 999 aliases be your A&E arsenic normal. Otherwise, you should usage 111 online arsenic your first larboard of call, aliases your section pharmacist aliases GP."

It is nan 12th onslaught from resident doctors since March 2023, which NHS England said had resulted successful 49 days of disruption to its services, balanced to astir 10 moving weeks of business action complete that period.

Resident doctors, antecedently named inferior doctors, dress up astir half of each doctors successful nan NHS.

They had anyplace up to 8 years' acquisition moving arsenic a infirmary expert aliases up to 3 years successful wide practice.

Since strikes began astatine nan extremity of 2022, nan cumulative full of infirmary appointments rescheduled successful England was adjacent to 1.5 cardinal crossed nan NHS, nan nationalist assemblage said.