Doctors Holding Patients to Ransom by Going on Strike – Streeting

Doctors Holding Patients to Ransom by Going on Strike – Streeting
NHS resident doctors outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London James Manning/PA
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Doctors are “inflicting pain and misery on patients” and holding them to ransom by going on strike, the Health Secretary has said.

Wes Streeting told LBC radio the five-day resident doctors’ strike in England is “going to set us back” as he accused British Medical Association (BMA) “activists” of “damaging” NHS recovery.