How are you affected by the latest juniors doctors' strikes?
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Version 0 of 1. NHS hospitals are finalising plans to cope with unprecedented strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday this week as junior doctors will refuse to work in life-or-death areas of care, including acute medicine, maternity services, emergency surgery and intensive care. Hospitals are asking patients to stay away from A&E during the walkouts, which will be staged from 8am to 5pm each day, unless it is an emergency and are bringing in consultants as cover. A total of 12,711 non-urgent operations and 112,856 outpatient appointments have been cancelled as part of determined efforts to ensure patients’ safety when there are far fewer doctors on duty than usual. Does this have any affect on you or your family? Perhaps you are due to give birth and scaled-back maternity services will worry you, or you have had any other sort of appointment cancelled. If so, we would like to hear from you. You can share your stories by filling out the form below and we will publish some of them as part of our coverage of the strike. |