NHS trusts and hospitals reassure patients needing emergency care,as medics prepare for two-day industrial action over Jeremy Hunt’s new contractHospitals across England are mounting a enormous contingency operation to hold services running as smoothly as possible during the first all-out strikes by junior doctors in the NHS’s history.
This week’s walkouts will hit areas of life-or-death care that were unaffected during the four previous strikes, including maternity services, and emergency surgery,intensive care, acute internal medicine and A&E.
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Source: theguardian.com