Given the timing, this strike will be far more damaging than the last – and the government needs to avert it
So here we go again – another junior doctors’ strike in England. But where is the noise and the fury?
We have been through this recently. On 13 March, almost all of our junior doctors went on strike for three days and nights. Junior doctors are all those below consultant grade, usually with several in each hospital ward. The consequence of that strike was that all consultants were forced to cancel all elective [planned] work – outpatient clinics, operations, investigations – so we could muck in to keep inpatient and emergency care safely staffed.
