US EditionSir Keir Starmer urges doctors to accept deal to avert Christmas strikes amid 'super flu' outbreak
Sir Keir Starmer warns strikes would worsen NHS crisis amid record flu hospitalisations; 58% of public oppose planned five-day industrial action, according to YouGov poll.
- Sir Keir Starmer urged resident doctors to accept a government offer to avert reckless strikes starting at 7am on December 17, while union members vote this weekend.
- NHS hospital data show flu hospitalisations in England rose 58% last week, with schools affected by outbreaks seeing over 250 pupils and staff fall ill.
- He warned that hospitals will face a "battle" as NHS staff work around the clock, and resident doctors' colleagues will be cancelling operations and Christmas leave, amid the 'super flu' epidemic, Sir Keir Starmer said.
- Ministers warn strikes planned next week would place the NHS and patients in grave danger, while a YouGov poll shows 58% opposing and 33% supporting the action.
- BMA's online poll closes on Monday, two days before strikes, and the government offer would halve competition ratios and allow deferral until after Christmas, ministers say.
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Fears NHS could collapse as ‘super flu’ sweeps UK
Resident doctors in England are being urged to call off their strike next week, as the ‘super flu’ continues to sweep the country. Health Secretary Wes Streeting says he genuinely fears the NHS could collapse if doctors strike while flu cases are surging. The Prime Minister has warned that they’d be putting patients “in grave danger”. The flu crisis has already put NHS services across the UK under severe strain.
The Great Britain faces a "vale without prior super flu", and first labist Keir Starmer and Health Minister Wes Streetting called on residents to give up on the protest scheduled for the period from 17 to 22 December.
Starmer is the NHS’s problem
The Guardian notes this morning that: Keir Starmer has said it is “frankly beyond belief” that resident doctors would strike during the NHS’s worst moment since the pandemic, in remarks that risk inflaming tensions with medical staff. No, it isn't. What is beyond belief is that: The NHS has been so underfunded that corridor care is now standard. He treats increasing the profits of US drug companies as more important than providing care in the …
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