The head of the NHS in England said that strikes have become ‘normalised’ for the public.
Strikes in the NHS have become “normalised”, the head of the service has said, as the number of NHS appointments cancelled because of strikes in England is expected to surpass one million.
Industrial action began in December 2022, with the official number of inpatient and outpatient appointments and operations cancelled currently standing at 885,154, according to NHS England. “From the clerical teams who have to explain to understandably frustrated patients that their appointments or procedures need to be rescheduled, to our clinical leaders who have to balance the rights of colleagues to withhold labour with the need to maintain the safety of patients, we know that – while industrial action becomes more normalised for the public as time goes on – for many of those caught in the middle it feels harder and harder.
“Trust leaders understand only too well the distress this can bring them and their loved ones. Every effort has been made to mitigate the impact of successive strikes but the rising disruption figures tell only a small part of the story. She told Sky News that resolving the dispute will help to bring down the record backlog of care in the NHS.
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