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The country's top doctor has warned the coming week will see the 'biggest strike disruption to date' as junior doctors stage a sweeping walkout.
Emergency, urgent and critical care will be prioritised, says the NHS, as strike action by junior doctors across England will see 'major disruption of services'. 'Thousands of patients' will face postponements to routine care, including appointments and operations, health service bosses are announcing.
Industrial action by junior doctors part of the British Medical Associations and the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association is set to begin on Monday (13 March) at all NHS trusts in England for 72 hours – the longest continuous period of strike action in recent months. Some 64,000 junior doctors will be going on strike, making up half of the medical workforce, as the term covers everyone who has just graduated from medical school to those with many years' experience on the front line.
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In NHS strikes earlier this year including those by the Royal College of Nursing, national derogations have been agreed ahead of the strike, meaning certain services such as intensive care or cancer clinics have been exempt from industrial action and remained working. However, this time, there are no derogations.
NHS bosses say they expect to see some of the most severe strike disruption of NHS services to date, having a huge impact on the drive to reduce waiting lists for elective care. Junior doctors are asking for a pay increase to make up for 15 years of inflation, along with better working conditions which they say is driving people to leave the NHS, leading
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Half of the country's medical workforce is heading out on strike in the morning. Hospital halls will be much quieter, GP surgeries will stall and patients will face more delays.
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Hundreds of volunteers from across Wigan are being invited to return to mobile clinics over the coming days for their second appointment as part of the NHS-Galleri trial.
Kathy McDonald Everyone goes home with an Oscar at the Governors Ball — a chocolate one dipped in gold leaf. The treat is one of the many classics on the menu created by chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur Wolfgang Puck, who will be behind the stove for an unprecedented 29th time at this year’s post-Oscars Governors Ball. While Puck himself will probably not be crafting the evening’s signature spicy tuna-filled sesame cones (more than 2,500 are made) or the Oscar-shaped matzo cracker topped with smoked salmon, he’s there to greet the anticipated 1,500 international attendees who are ready to eat and expecting their favorites.
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The music world is mourning.
Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.
Ed Sheeran has new music on the way, and the English singer is revealing how emotional pain in his personal life informed and influenced his new album.Sheeran dropped a press release on Wednesday, revealing that his long-awaited new album,, will be hitting shelves May 5, and explained the creative journey that the album took over the past few years.«I had been working on for a decade, trying to sculpt the perfect acoustic album, writing and recording hundreds of songs with a clear vision of what I thought it should be,» Sheeran shared in his statement. «Then at the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art.»According to the «Bad Habits» singer, a series of misfortune and tragedy struck — from his wife, Cherry Seaborn, finding out she had a tumor to the death of a close friend, and the stress of fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit.«Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumour, with no route to treatment until after the birth.