Junior Doctor Strikes Will Hit Health Services ‘Very Hard’: NHS Director

The healthcare service will be hit hard by a new round of strike action amid heatwave health alerts, the NHS national medical director has warned. Junior doctors in England have announced new strike dates in the run-up to the general election. This involves a full walk-out of junior doctors beginning at 7 a.m. June 27 and ending at 7 a.m. July 2. The new round of industrial action will hit the NHS “very hard,” warned Sir Stephen Powis, the NHS medical director. Every routine care is likely to be affected and services will experience “significant pressure,” he said in a statement. The walkout, announced by the British Medical Association (BMA), comes at a time when temperatures across the country are set to rise above 25 degrees Celsius....