#healthcare-strikes

#healthcare-strikes

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, is being interviewed on on LBC. The presenter is Nick Ferrari. Streeting said the flu was putting the NHS under the worst pressure since Covid. There is a particularly aggressive strain of flu around, he said. He said he would be extremely worried about this if there were no strikes. But, with the double whammy of flu and strikes, he thinks the situation is dangerous.

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We are still down compared to even the pandemic in 2020, Dr Emma Runswick, a resident doctor in Greater Manchester and deputy chair of the BMA council, stated. The reward for working to get the country through Covid has been a real-terms pay cut, which was not the treatment expected during the days when people lined the streets to clap for health workers.