Cancer and heart care at risk from strike - NHS England

Urgent heart and cancer care is being compromised by the ongoing doctors' strike, NHS England bosses are warning. The letter was signed by senior leaders at NHS England including the medical director Prof Sir Stephen Powis and Dame Ruth May. It was sent on Tuesday after the latest strike in England got under way, on Monday 2 October. By the end of this walkout doctors will have taken part in 30 days of strike action. He said on top of the cover provided, the BMA had agreed the NHS also had access to non-striking junior doctors and consultants - a third are not members of the union - as well as staff doctors who did not work at either grade and so were not eligible to strike. More than one million appointments and treatments have been postponed since strike action in the NHS began in December.

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